Joy vs Content - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between joy and content

is that joy is the sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity while content is acquiescence without examination.

In transitive obsolete terms the difference between joy and content

is that joy is to gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate while content is to satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.

As nouns the difference between joy and content

is that joy is a feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good while content is that which is contained.

As verbs the difference between joy and content

is that joy is to feel joy, to rejoice while content is to give contentment or satisfaction; to satisfy; to gratify; to appease.

As a proper noun Joy

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As an adjective content is

satisfied; in a state of satisfaction.

joy

English

(wikipedia joy)

Noun

A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.

a child's joy on Christmas morning

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Anything that causes such a feeling.

* Bible, 1 Thess. ii. 20

Ye are our glory and joy .

* Keats

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

(obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.

* Spenser

Such joy made Una, when her knight she found.

* Dryden

The roofs with joy resound.

Antonyms

* (feeling of happiness) infelicity, joylessness, unhappiness, unjoy

Derived terms

* bundle of joy * cocky's joy * enjoy * joyance * joyful * joygasm * joyless * joyous * joy ride * joystick * jump for joy * killjoy * no joy * overjoy * traveller's joy * unjoy

Verb

(en verb)

To feel joy, to rejoice.

*:for oftymes or this oure lord shewed hym vnto good men and vnto good knyghtes in lykenes of an herte But I suppose from hens forth ye shalle see no more / and thenne they Ioyed moche / and dwelled ther alle that day / And vpon the morowe whan they had herde masse / they departed and commaunded the good man to god

*1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18:

*:I swore readily enough to this and he joyed with exceeding joy and embraced me round the neck while love for him possessed my whole heart.

(archaic) To enjoy.

*1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i.2:

*:For from the time that Scudamour her bought, / In perilous fight, she neuer ioyed day.

*Milton

*:Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss.

(obsolete) To give joy to; to congratulate.

*Dryden

*:Joy us of our conquest.

*Prior

*:To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe.

(obsolete) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.

*Shakespeare

*:Neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits.

Statistics

content

English

(wikipedia content)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ; see contain.

Noun

(uncountable) That which is contained.

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Subject matter; substance.

* Grew

I shall prove these writingsauthentic, and the contents true, and worthy of a divine original.

The amount of material contained; contents.

Capacity for holding.

* (Francis Bacon)

Strong ships, of great content .

(mathematics) The n''-dimensional space contained by an ''n''-dimensional polytope (called ''volume'' in the case of a polyhedron and ''area in the case of a polygon).

Etymology 2

From (etyl), from (etyl) content, from (etyl) ; see contain.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Satisfied; in a state of satisfaction.

*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.

Derived terms

* contentment

Synonyms

* (satisfied) contented, pleased, satisfied

Etymology 3

From (etyl) , from (contenter); see content as a verb.

Noun

(en noun)

Satisfaction; contentment

They were in a state of sleepy content after supper.

* Shakespeare

Such is the fullness of my heart's content .

(obsolete) acquiescence without examination

* Alexander Pope

The sense they humbly take upon content .

That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.

* Shakespeare

So will I in England work your grace's full content .

(UK, House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmate vote.

(UK, House of Lords) A member who votes in assent.

Derived terms

* discontent * malcontent

Etymology 4

From (etyl) contenter, from ; see content as an adjective.

Verb

(en verb)

To give contentment or satisfaction; to satisfy; to gratify; to appease.

You can't have any more - you'll have to content yourself with what you already have.

* Bible, Mark xv. 15

Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them.

* I. Watts

Do not content yourselves with obscure and confused ideas, where clearer are to be attained.

(obsolete) To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.

* Shakespeare

Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.

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