ˈjoyancy [f. joyant; cf.prec. and see -ancy.] The quality or state of being joyant; joyousness. 1849J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. LXVI. 381 In a rapture of aimless joyancy.1866Carlyle in Remin. (1881) I. 202 One heard too that in Irving there was visible a certain joyancy and frankness of triumph.