joy

v. rejoice, delight, be happy

n. happiness, high spirits, great pleasure, bliss, delight; source of happiness or pleasure

Joy is an emotion of great happiness.
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Noun
1. the emotion of great happiness
(synonym) joyousness, joyfulness
(antonym) sorrow
(hypernym) emotion
(hyponym) elation, high spirits
(derivation) gladden
2. something or someone that provides pleasure; a source of happiness; "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight"
(synonym) delight, pleasure
(hypernym) positive stimulus
(derivation) gladden
Verb
1. feel happiness or joy
(synonym) rejoice
(hypernym) feel, experience
(hyponym) cheer, cheer up, chirk up
(derivation) joyousness, joyfulness
2. make glad or happy
(synonym) gladden
(cause) gladden
(derivation) delight, pleasure

(v. t.)
To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
  

(v. t.)
To give joy to; to congratulate.
  

(v. t.)
To enjoy.
  

(n.)
To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.
  

(n.)
The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.
  

(n.)
The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight.
  

(n.)
That which causes joy or happiness.
  

<language> A functional programming language by Manfred von Thun. Joy is unusual because it is not based on lambda calculus, but on the composition of functions. Functions take a stack as argument, consume any number of parameters from it, and return it with any number of results on it. The concatenation of programs denotes the composition of functions. One of the datatypes of Joy is that of quoted programs, of which lists are a special case.
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