joy

n

1. delight, pleasure, enjoyment, delectation, gratification; gladness, Archaic. joyance, happiness, felicity, beatitude, blessedness, exaltation, rapture, bliss; seventh heaven, ecstasy, ravishment, transport.

2. peace, peacefulness, serenity, sereneness, tranquillity, tranquilness, placidity, placidness, quiet, contentment.

3. excitement, thrill, Sl. kick, Sl. charge, Sl. rush.

4. gaiety, gayness, sunshine, cheerfulness, gladsome- ness, cheer, good nature, high spirits; levity, blitheness, blithesomeness, light-heartedness, buoyancy, optimism; jocundity, joviality, merriment, jollity, mirth, mirthfulness, laughter, hilarity; enthusiasm, animation, sparkle, excitement; exhilaration, exultation, glee, elation, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, jubilance, jubilancy; rejoicing, frolic, fun, revelry, revel, conviviality, festivity, celebration.