joy
noun
[ dʒɔɪ ]
• a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.
• "tears of joy"
Similar:
delight,
great pleasure,
joyfulness,
jubilation,
triumph,
exultation,
rejoicing,
happiness,
gladness,
glee,
exhilaration,
ebullience,
exuberance,
elation,
euphoria,
bliss,
ecstasy,
transports of delight,
rapture,
radiance,
enjoyment,
gratification,
felicity,
cloud nine,
seventh heaven,
joie de vivre,
delectation,
joyousness,
jouissance,
ravishment,
jocundity,
pleasure,
source of pleasure,
treat,
thrill,
buzz,
kick,
joy
verb
• rejoice.
• "I felt shame that I had ever joyed in his discomfiture or pain"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French joie, based on Latin gaudium, from gaudere ‘rejoice’.