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Jubilation vs Rejoicing - What's the difference?

jubilation | rejoicing |

As nouns the difference between jubilation and rejoicing

is that jubilation is a triumphant shouting; rejoicing; exultation while rejoicing is an act of showing joy.

As a verb rejoicing is

present participle of lang=en.

jubilation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A triumphant shouting; rejoicing; exultation.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 23 , author=Tom Fordyce , title=2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The final whistle triggered scenes of wild jubilation at Eden Park as a nation celebrated a repeat of the outcome from the very first World Cup final in 1987.}}

    Related terms

    * jubilant, jubilance, jubilancy * jubilate * jubilee

    rejoicing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • An act of showing joy.
  • :There was much rejoicing when the good news finally arrived.
  • * 1842 , Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Disowned (page 286)
    • But what are your foot-ploddings, your ambulating rejoicings , to the free etherealities which our courser's light bound and exultant spurnings of the dull earth bring to the spirit!