The emotion of great happiness.

synonyms: joyfulness, joyousness.

Dutch: blijheid

Something or someone that provides a source of happiness:
— A joy to behold.

synonyms: delight, pleasure.

Roget 827: pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition; oblectation, delectation, delection^†; relish, zest; gusto etc. (physical pleasure) 377; satisfaction etc. (content) 831; complacency.    well-being; good etc. 618; snugness, comfort, ease; cushion etc. 215; sans souci [Fr.], without worry, mind at ease.    joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine; cheerfulness etc. 836.    treat, refreshment; amusement etc. 840; luxury etc. 377.    mens sana in corpore sano [Lat.] [Juvenal], a sound mind in a sound body.    happiness, felicity, bliss; beatitude, beautification; enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy; summum bonum [Lat.]; paradise, elysium etc. (heaven) 981; third heaven^†, seventh heaven, cloud nine; unalloyed happiness &c.; hedonics^†, hedonism.    honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time; Dixie, Dixie's land; Saturnia regna [Lat.], Arcadia^†, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone^†.    ... show more

Feel happiness or joy.

synonym: rejoice.

Roget 827: be pleased etc. 829; feel pleasure, experience pleasure etc. n.; joy; enjoy oneself, hug oneself; be in clover etc. 377, be in elysium etc. 981; tread on enchanted ground; fall into raptures, go into raptures.    feel at home, breathe freely, bask in the sunshine.    be pleased with etc. 829; receive pleasure, derive pleasure etc. n.. from; take pleasure etc. n.. in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in; gloat over etc. (physical pleasure) 377; enjoy, relish, like; love etc. 897; take to, take a fancy to; have a liking for; enter into the spirit of.    take in good part.    treat oneself to, solace oneself with.    ... show more

Dutch: verblijden, verheugen

Make glad or happy.

synonym: gladden.