thankfulness

noun

Etymology: From thankful + -ness.

1. The state of being thankful.

   “All our Diſcontents about what we want, appeared to me, to ſpring from the want of Thankfulneſs for what we have.”

   “No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.”