mirth

n.

Gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter.

[Middle English, from Old English myrgth.]

noun

A state of joyful exuberance: blitheness, blithesomeness, gaiety, glee, gleefulness, hilarity, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, merriness, mirthfulness. See laughter.

n

Definition: great joy
Antonyms: blues, depression, distress, gloom, misery, sadness, unhappiness

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IN BRIEF: Joyfulness with laughter.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment. — Joseph Addison (1672-1719).

Dansk (Danish)
n. - munterhed

Nederlands (Dutch)
vrolijkheid, gelach

Français (French)
n. - hilarité, joie

Deutsch (German)
n. - Heiterkeit, Frohsinn

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ευθυμία, ιλαρότητα

Italiano (Italian)
allegria

Português (Portuguese)
n. - jovialidade (f)

Русский (Russian)
веселье

Español (Spanish)
n. - alegría, júbilo, risa

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - munterhet

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
欢笑, 高兴

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 歡笑, 高興

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 환희

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 浮かれ騒ぐこと, 歓楽, 陽気, 笑い

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) بهجه, إنبساط‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חדווה, שמחה, צחוק‬

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