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Joyance vs Joyfulness - What's the difference?

joyance | joyfulness |

As nouns the difference between joyance and joyfulness

is that joyance is (archaic|poetic) enjoyment, joy, delight while joyfulness is the state of being joyful.

joyance

English

Noun

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  • (archaic, poetic) Enjoyment, joy, delight.
  • * 1885 , , The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Vol. 5
    • ...for excess of joyance never knew
    How went the day and how it came again.
  • *1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 134:
  • *:And on a great blooming laurel-bush the mocking-bird sang, heedless of the darkness to come, heedless of the day gone by, possessed by its fervor of music that made gloom light and all life a joyance [...].

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    joyfulness

    English

    Noun

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  • the state of being joyful