Synonyms for joyousness
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Noun
1. Joy
joy, hilarity, mirth, joyfulness, happiness, glee, merriment, gladness, jollity, joviality, delight, felicity, exuberance, elation, cheerfulness, cheeriness, merriness, gleefulness, blitheness, mirthfulness, jolliness, gaiety dated
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Definitions
- n. 1
The state of being joyous.
Forms
- Plural
- joyousnesses → joys, hilarities, mirths, joyfulnesses…
Example sentences
- joy Everyone shouted for joy when they heard the news.
- hilarity Game nights were always filled with hilarity and fun.
- mirth This joke is a source of mirth for the audience.
- joyfulness I never consider ease and joyfulness as the purpose of life itself.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| joyousness | steady | |
| joy | rising | |
| hilarity | rising | |
| mirth | rising | |
| joyfulness | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- joy1
- 4 letters
- glee1
- 5 letters
- mirth1
- 6 letters
- gaiety
- 7 letters
- delight2, elation3, jollity
- 8 letters
- felicity4, hilarity4, gladness
- 9 letters
- happiness3, merriment, joviality, merriness, jolliness
- 10 letters
- exuberance4, joyfulness, cheeriness, blitheness
- 11 letters
- gleefulness
- 12 letters
- cheerfulness3, mirthfulness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (delight2 = 2 syllables).