1. Joie.
2. Entrain.
1. A feeling of spontaneous good spirits; SYN. blitheness.
2. The quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom; SYN. cheer.
The state of being cheery.
1. A festive merry feeling; SYN. playfulness.
2. A gay feeling; SYN. merriment.
ETYM Old Eng. gle, gleo, AS. gleów, gleó, akin to Icel. gly: cf. Greek chleyn joke, jest.
Joy; merriment; mirth; gaiety.
ETYM Old Eng. mirthe, murthe, merthe, AS. myrth, myrgth, merhth, mirhth. Related to Merry.
1. Merriment; gaiety accompanied with laughter.
2. That which causes merriment.