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1. • Gaiety or jollity

     • gaiety or jollity, especially when accompanied by laughter: the excitement and mirth of the holiday season. Antonyms: gloom amusement or laughter: He was unable to conceal his mirth.
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   What does Mirth mean?

   • Mirth, glee, hilarity, merriment, jollity, joviality refer to the gaiety characterizing people who are enjoying the companionship of others. Mirth suggests spontaneous amusement or gaiety, manifested briefly in laughter: uncontrolled outbursts of mirth.

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   What is a night of Mirth?

   • Accessed 14 Oct. 2024. Mirth is a formal or literary term meaning fun and enjoyment as shown by laughter. If you and your friends stayed up all night at a sleepover laughing, you might refer to that as a night of mirth.

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   Where does a lot of Mirth come from?

   • Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2024 A lot of mirth comes from unexpectedly vulgar words erupting from ordinary dialogue or sweet melodies. Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2024 Non-verbal facial expressions of glee and mirth while his opponent was throwing hyperbolic lie bombs.

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   What is the difference between joy and Mirth?

   • Joy when occasioned by the contrast of very dissimilar objects, along which it proceeds by continual leaps and bounds from one to the other, becomes mirth. Who mixt reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth. Cassius grinned with some feeling deeper than mirth. A reckless mixture of seriousness with mirth.

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   What is the difference between mirth and Glee?

   • Mirth suggests spontaneous amusement or gaiety, manifested briefly in laughter: uncontrolled outbursts of mirth. Glee suggests an effervescence of high spirits or exultation, often manifested in playful or ecstatic gestures; it may apply also to a malicious rejoicing over mishaps to others: glee over the failure of a rival.

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   What does the word'mirth' mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! MIRTH definition: 1. laughter, humour, or happiness: 2. laughter, humor, or happiness: 3. laughter or amusement: . Learn more.

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   The meaning of MIRTH is gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter. How to use mirth in a sentence.

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   noun [ U ] literary uk / mɜːθ / us / mɝːθ / Add to word list. laughter, humour, or happiness: Her impersonations of our teachers were a source of considerable mirth. Synonyms. glee. hilarity. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Laughing and smiling. a gleam in your eye idiom. amused. be all smiles idiom. be in convulsions idiom.

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   Pleasurable feeling; enjoyment, gratification; joy, happiness. Often used of religious joy and heavenly bliss. Obsolete. eOE. Be þæm þu meaht ongietan ðæt þu þær nane myrhðe on næfdest. King Ælfred, translation of Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae (Otho MS.) vii. 15. OE.

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   Mirth, glee, hilarity, merriment, jollity, joviality refer to the gaiety characterizing people who are enjoying the companionship of others. Mirth suggests spontaneous amusement or gaiety, manifested briefly in laughter: uncontrolled outbursts of mirth.

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   noun. 1. gaiety or jollity, esp. when accompanied by laughter. the excitement and mirth of the holiday season. 2. amusement or laughter. He was unable to conceal his mirth. SYNONYMS 1, 2. mirth, glee, hilarity, merriment, jollity, joviality refer to the gaiety characterizing people who are enjoying the companionship of others. mirth suggests ...

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   noun [ U ] literary us / mɝːθ / uk / mɜːθ / Add to word list. laughter, humor, or happiness: Her impersonations of our teachers were a source of considerable mirth. Synonyms. glee. hilarity. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Laughing and smiling. a gleam in your eye idiom. amused. be all smiles idiom. be in convulsions idiom.

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   Mirth is a formal or literary term meaning fun and enjoyment as shown by laughter. If you and your friends stayed up all night at a sleepover laughing, you might refer to that as a night of mirth.