Joyance

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪəns/

Origin

Apparently coined by Spenser, from joy + -ance.

Full definition of joyance

Noun

1. (archaic, poetic) Enjoyment, joy, delight.
• 1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 5...for excess of joyance never knewHow 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 ....

Anagrams

• Joycean