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The answer JOY has 167 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of joy in various dictionaries:
noun - the emotion of great happiness
noun - something or someone that provides a source of happiness
verb - feel happiness or joy
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| Possible Jeopardy Clues |
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| Freude is this to which Beethoven composed an ode; Schadenfreude is this at someone else's misfortune |
| When talking about your kids, it pairs with "pride" |
| Rapture, or the first name of Ms. Behar of "The View"... so what? who cares? |
| Oh, happiness! She shares "The View" with Elisabeth & Barbara |
| First name of Mr. Philbin's wife |
| In a poem, Wordsworth was "surprised by" this emotion & "impatient as the wind" |
| "My Name Is Earl" & this is my ex-wife |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| a feeling of great pleasure and happiness. |
| rejoice. |
| something or someone that provides pleasure a source of happiness |
| make glad or happy |
| feel happiness or joy |
| the emotion of great happiness |
| great happiness or pleasure: |
| success, action, or help: |
| a person or thing that causes happiness: |
| great happiness: |
| Joy description |
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| The word joy means a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.C. S. Lewis saw clear distinction between joy, pleasure, and happiness: "I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.", and "I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasure. Joy (in my sense) has indeed one characteristic, and one only, in common with them; the fact that anyone who has experienced it will want it again... I doubt whether anyone who has tasted it would ever, if both were in his power, exchange it for all the pleasures in the world. But then Joy is never in our power and Pleasure often is."The causes of joy have been ascribed to various sources. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. Gautama Buddha, "[Joy is] the emotional dimension of the good life, of a life that is both going well and is being lived well."Miroslav Volf, "This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized b |