What's the difference between mirthless and mirthlessness?

Mirthless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without mirth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) How had someone with such a perceptive gift for social observation taken to producing mirthlessly indulgent parodies of his media image?
  • (2) There is, as everyone who meets him seems to note, something ineffably sad about his eyes, even when he laughs, which he does in a gruff, mirthless shout.
  • (3) He was where the crisps are.” She gives a mirthless chuckle at the ridiculousness of what she has just said.Crisps are an unbefitting memorial.
  • (4) When I ask Peter Buckingham, its head of distribution and exhibition, what morale is like, he lets loose a mirthless roar of laughter.
  • (5) Prime minister’s questions is about watching shouted wordplay that worked better on the page, then forcing out a mirthless laugh for the team.
  • (6) I think there are probably three young American psychos who raised a mirthless chuckle (psychos, after all, never experience true mirth) at this spectacle, and the other 100,000 viewers just pretended to laugh, since no one wants to be the po-faced person who doesn't get the joke, especially not when they're 15.

Mirthlessness


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) How had someone with such a perceptive gift for social observation taken to producing mirthlessly indulgent parodies of his media image?
  • (2) There is, as everyone who meets him seems to note, something ineffably sad about his eyes, even when he laughs, which he does in a gruff, mirthless shout.
  • (3) He was where the crisps are.” She gives a mirthless chuckle at the ridiculousness of what she has just said.Crisps are an unbefitting memorial.
  • (4) When I ask Peter Buckingham, its head of distribution and exhibition, what morale is like, he lets loose a mirthless roar of laughter.
  • (5) Prime minister’s questions is about watching shouted wordplay that worked better on the page, then forcing out a mirthless laugh for the team.
  • (6) I think there are probably three young American psychos who raised a mirthless chuckle (psychos, after all, never experience true mirth) at this spectacle, and the other 100,000 viewers just pretended to laugh, since no one wants to be the po-faced person who doesn't get the joke, especially not when they're 15.

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