ioy

Noun

joy (countable and uncountable, plural joys)

1. A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.
   • a child's joy on Christmas morning

   Synonyms:

   elation, glee, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, cheeriness, contentness, contentedness, delight, delightedness

   Antonyms:

   infelicity, joylessness, unhappiness, unjoy, blueness, tristesse, mirthless, blues, crestfallenness, dejection

2. Anything that causes such a feeling.
   • the joys and demands of parenthood
3. Luck or success; a positive outcome.
   • Grant had no joy with taking a nap, so he began to systematically feel if everything was working: fingers and toes, etc.2012, Colin Owen, Colin's Shorts, volume 2, page 65
4. (obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.
   • Such ioy made Vna, when her knight she found;1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 32

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