Jocund vs Mirth - What's the difference?
jocund | mirth |
Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.
* (rfdate), Thomas Shelton, translator, Don Quixote , Miguel de Cervantes
* (rfdate), William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
* (rfdate) William Wordsworth
The emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety.
* 1883 ,
*, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 * 1912 , :
That which causes merriment.
* 1922 ,
As an adjective jocund
is jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.As a noun mirth is
the emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety.jocund
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There was once a widow, fair, young, free, rich, and withal very pleasant and jocund , that fell in love with a certain round and well-set servant of a college.
- Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
- a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company
Derived terms
*mirth
English
Noun
(en noun)- And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily, that, though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again obliged to join him in his mirth.
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- Their eyes met and they began to laugh. They laughed as children do when they cannot contain themselves, and can not explain the cause of their mirth to grown people, but share it perfectly together.
- Phantasmal mirth , folded away: muskperfumed.
