mirthfulness
11mirthful — adjective 1. arousing or provoking laughter an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls an amusing fellow a comic hat a comical look of surprise funny stories that made everybody laugh a very funny writer it would have been… …
12jocund — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin jocundus, alteration of Latin jucundus, from juvare to help Date: 14th century marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness < a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund… …
13mirth — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English myrgth, from myrge merry more at merry Date: before 12th century gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter • mirthful adjective • mirthfully adverb • mirthfulness noun • mirthless …
14hilarity — /hi lar i tee, lair , huy /, n. 1. cheerfulness; merriment; mirthfulness. 2. boisterous gaiety or merriment. [1560 70; earlier hilaritie < L hilaritas, equiv. to hilari(s) (see HILARIOUS) + tas TY2] Syn. 2. See mirth. * * * …
15laughter — laughterless, adj. /laf teuhr, lahf /, n. 1. the action or sound of laughing. 2. an inner quality, mood, disposition, etc., suggestive of laughter; mirthfulness: a man of laughter and goodwill. 3. an expression or appearance of merriment or… …
16mirthful — mirthfully, adv. mirthfulness, n. /merrth feuhl/, adj. 1. joyous; gay; jolly: a mirthful laugh. 2. providing mirth; amusing: a mirthful experience. [1275 1325; ME; see MIRTH, FUL] * * * …
17amusement — Synonyms and related words: animal pleasure, beguilement, bodily pleasure, carnal delight, comfort, content, contentment, coziness, creature comforts, dissipation, distraction, diversion, divertissement, ease, endpleasure, enjoyment,… …
18frivolity — Synonyms and related words: amusement, asininity, battiness, big deal, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, dallying, desipience, eccentricity, emptiness, fatuity, fatuousness, flightiness,… …
19fun — Synonyms and related words: act, action, amusement, amusing, animal pleasure, ball, be merry with, beguiling, behave, belly laugh, big time, blitheness, blue story, bodily pleasure, carnal delight, comfort, content, contentment, coziness, crack a …
20gaiety — Synonyms and related words: Technicolor, animal spirits, animation, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blatancy, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, blitheness, bravery, brazenness, bright color, brightness, brilliance, buoyancy, capersomeness …
