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

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