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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