Synonyms for joy
dʒɔɪjoy

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1. joynoun

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   They will be a source of strength and joy in your life.

   Antonyms:
   joylessness, unhappiness, infelicity

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1. joy

   Gratification is the giving any mental or physical desire something that it craves; satisfaction is the giving such a desire all that it craves. Happiness is the positively agreeable experience that springs from the possession of good, the gratification or satisfaction of the desires or the relief from pain and evil. Comfort may be almost wholly negative, being found in security or relief from that which pains or annoys; there is comfort by a warm fireside on a wintry night; the sympathy of a true friend affords comfort in sorrow. Enjoyment is more positive, always implying something to be definitely and consciously delighted in; a sick person finds comfort in relief from pain, while he may be far from a state of enjoyment. Pleasure is still more vivid, being an arousing of the faculties to an intensely agreeable activity; satisfaction is more tranquil than pleasure, being the agreeable consciousness of having all that our faculties demand or crave; when a worthy pleasure is past, a worthy satisfaction remains. As referring to a mental state, gratification is used to denote a mild form of happiness resulting from some incident not of very great importance; satisfaction should properly express a happiness deeper, more complete, and more abiding; but as intellect or sensibilities of a low order may find satisfaction in that which is very poor or unworthy, the word has come to be feeble and tame in ordinary use. Happiness is more positive than comfort, enjoyment, or satisfaction, more serene and rational than pleasure; pleasure is of necessity transient; happiness is abiding, and may be eternal; thus, we speak of pleasures, but the plural of happiness is scarcely used. Happiness, in the full sense, is mental or spiritual or both, and is viewed as resulting from some worthy gratification or satisfaction; we may speak of a brute as experiencing comfort or pleasure, but scarcely as in possession of happiness; we speak of vicious pleasure, delight, or joy, but not of vicious happiness. Felicity is a philosophical term, colder and more formal than happiness. Gladness is happiness that overflows, expressing itself in countenance, voice, manner, and action. Joy is more intense than happiness, deeper than gladness, to which it is akin, nobler and more enduring than pleasure. Gaiety is more superficial than joy, more demonstrative than gladness. Rejoicing is happiness or joy that finds utterance in word, song, festivity, etc. Delight is vivid, overflowing happiness of a somewhat transient kind; ecstasy is a state of extreme or extravagant delight so that the one affected by it seems almost beside himself with joy; rapture is closely allied to ecstasy, but is more serene, exalted, and enduring. Triumph is such joy as results from victory, success, achievement. Blessedness is at once the state and the sense of being divinely blessed; as, the blessedness of the righteous. Bliss is ecstatic, perfected happiness; as, the bliss of heaven. Compare COMFORT.

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   Synonyms:
   blessedness, bliss, cheer, comfort, contentment, delight, ecstasy, enjoyment, felicity, gaiety, gladness, gratification, happiness, merriment, mirth, pleasure, rapture, rejoicing, satisfaction, triumph

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1. joy

   Synonyms:
   gladness, pleasure, delight, happiness, exultation, transport, felicity, ecstasy, rapture, bites, gaiety, mirth, merriment, festivity, hilarity

   Antonyms:
   sorrow, pain, trouble, misery, melancholy, grief, affliction, tears, depression, despondency, despair

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1. joy, joyousness, joyfulnessnoun

   the emotion of great happiness

   Synonyms:
   joyousness, delight, pleasure, joyfulness

   Antonyms:
   sorrow

2. joy, delight, pleasureverb

   something or someone that provides a source of happiness

   "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight"

   Synonyms:
   joyousness, pleasance, delectation, delight, pleasure, joyfulness

   Antonyms:
   sorrow

3. rejoice, joyverb

   feel happiness or joy

   Synonyms:
   rejoice, gladden, jubilate, wallow, exuberate, exult, triumph

   Antonyms:
   sorrow

4. gladden, joyverb

   make glad or happy

   Synonyms:
   gladden, rejoice

   Antonyms:
   sorrow

Matched Categories

1. • Emotion
   • Feel

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1. joynoun

   Synonyms:
   gladness, delight, glee, exultation, ecstasy, rapture, ravishment, transport, beatitude, beatification

2. joynoun

   Synonyms:
   happiness, felicity, bliss

3. joynoun

   Synonyms:
   cause of gladness

4. joyverb

   Synonyms:
   exult, rejoice, be glad, be delighted, be joyful

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1. joynoun

   Synonyms:
   gladness, exultation, jubilation, mirth, festivity glee, elation, merriment

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1. List of paraphrases for "joy":

   delight, happiness, pleasure, gioia, alegría, rejoicing, gladness, farah, glee, jubilation, cheer, hei, fun, excitement

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1. August Strindberg:

   People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life -- to learn something is a joy to me.

2. Mother Teresa:

   Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

3. Arnold Patent:

   As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express,the more joy you experience.

4. Joy Behar:

   Well, I ’m scared of what’s going to happen in Western Europe too, joy Behar know, Joy Behar plan a trip. Joy Behar want to go there. I want to go to Italy for four years and I have n’t been able to make it because of the pandemic.

5. Damon Jacobs:

   We are taught in this culture to react to perceptions of scarcity with suspicion and attack, instead of practicing the idea of' compersion', or joy in someone else's joy, we are conditioned to respond to joy and success with,' You shouldn't feel good when I don't feel good.' This sets up a nasty cycle of blame-attack-separation, which ultimately fuels our epidemic of alienation and loneliness.