The quality or state of being merry (in various senses); merriment. Also (in early use): †melody, sweet sound (obsolete).

The state of being glad; joy, rejoicing. †Also, cheerfulness, alacrity (in action).

Pleasurable feeling; enjoyment, gratification; joy, happiness. Often used of religious joy and heavenly bliss. Obsolete.

Enjoyment, pleasure, joy, delight; a source of delight. Obsolete (Scottish in later use).

Joy, pleasure, gladness; mirth, rejoicing, jubilation; an instance of this.

= gladness, n.

Tranquillity, peace, rest; joy, delight.

Pleasure, delight, joy. Since early modern English chiefly in to have no will of, (also †in): to take no pleasure in, have no liking for. Now Scottish…

Hope, happy expectation, trust; delight, joy, pleasure.

The state of being blithe; joyousness, cheeriness, merriness, happiness. (originally a synonym of bliss.)

Gladness, joy. Obsolete.

Joy, pleasure, delight, bliss; a source of joy, a delight.

Blitheness; gladness; joy, delight, enjoyment. Mental, ethereal, spiritual: perfect joy or felicity, supreme delight; blessedness. (Early instances…

In plural and singular. Delight, pleasure, joy, enjoyment. Obsolete.

Great pleasure or happiness. In earlier use also: spec. sexual pleasure or gratification.

A vivid emotion of pleasure arising from a sense of well-being or satisfaction; the feeling or state of being highly pleased or delighted…

Pleasure, enjoyment, delight, gladness. Obsolete.

Pleasure, joy, delight. Obsolete.

Gladness.

Liking or fondness to do or see anything; delight, pleasure, joy. Obsolete.

The quality or state of being fain; eagerness, gladness.

Cheerfulness, high spirits, joy, mirth; freedom from sadness or worry. In later use also: breeziness, liveliness. Frequently in lightness of heart…

The action of giving great pleasure to a person, the mind, etc.; enjoyment; delight; gratification; an instance of this. In later use frequently in f…

The action or fact of taking great pleasure in something; pleasure, enjoyment; an act or instance of this. Chiefly with in.

Comforting; comfort, delight.

Gladness, joy.

(a) Compassion, mercy, good-will. Obsolete. (b) Gladness, mirth, pleasure, delight. Obsolete.

Gladness, joy.

Gratification, pleasure, enjoyment. Obsolete.

The state or condition of being gladsome; gladness, joy.

A state of wild joy or delight. Obsolete. rare.

The quality or state of being joyous; joyous or mirthful behaviour; mirth, disport.

The quality or state of being joyful; gladness; lively happiness.

Pleasure, delight, happiness: = jocundity, n. 2.

The state or quality of being joyous.

Joy, pleasure. Obsolete.

The state or condition of feeling delight; great pleasure, joyfulness. Cf. delightful, adj. 2. rare between 17th and 21st centuries.

Pleasure, delight (= enjoyment, n. 2); merriment, mirth, festivity. Obsolete.

The state of feeling or action of showing joy; rejoicing; delight; enjoyment.

As a moral or mental quality, in various senses. Lightness (of spirit), freedom from care. Obsolete.

The action of revel, v.1 (in various senses); an instance of this.

Chuckling, exultation, glee.

The quality or state of being joyant; joyousness.

a song in one's heart: a feeling of joy or pleasure. Often in with a song in one's heart.

The state of being delighted; = delightfulness, n. 1. Obsolete. rare.