Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being sunny.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being sunny.

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  • noun The property of being sunny.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
  • noun lightness created by sunlight

Etymologies

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sunny +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Nor does Ma abandon his adherence to a kind of sunniness that illuminates consummate musicmaking.

    Music review: Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott at the Kennedy Center Anne Midgette 2010

  • Swing voters, we had been told at the time Senator Kerry named John Edwards as his running mate, would respond well to the vice-presidential candidate's "sunniness," his "optimism," his "small town roots."

    Politics in the 'New Normal' America Didion, Joan 2004

  • The few gestures the Times did make confessed to Reagan's personal sunniness, while portraying his policies as harmful to the poor and middle class.

    New York Times Barely Touches Reagan's 100th; Unflattering When It Does Clay Waters 2011

  • Oh, for those fading voices that once reported on other parts of the sporting forest – the posh joshing of Brian Johnston, or the old-school sunniness whatever the weather of Dan Maskell at Wimbledon.

    In praise of ... 'Whispering' Ted Lowe | Editorial 2011

  • Seamlessly he combines sunniness and subversion, and can be very complicated indeed.

    Fats Waller by Michael Longley 2011

  • Here's hoping tomorrow brings more sunniness, of mood and weather both.

    Blah blah blah 2008

  • Here's hoping tomorrow brings more sunniness, of mood and weather both.

    September 2008 2008

  • Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal All the members of the Flight Crew, the Jets cheerleading squad, wear the no. 10, and all seem to share a genetic predisposition toward sunniness.

    On Sidelines, Only the Sunniest Need Apply 2010

  • Like the sunniness in his books that is always giving way to darkness — or barely concealing it — his humor forsook him now and then, especially as he grew old, and in its place there is deep sadness and a bottomless reservoir of rage.

    Our Mysterious Stranger 2010

  • Shortly after they were married five years ago, the Lees — attracted to the lot ' s views, sunniness and central location — purchased the hillside plot of less than 1/8 of an acre for $775,000.

    A Marin Home Gets the Spa Treatment Candace Jackson 2010

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