Word of the Day: Mirth

mirth

mirth / mûrth

noun

1. merriment, laughter, glee

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison, 1672 – 1719