Energy vs Joy - What's the difference?
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The impetus behind all motion and all activity.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy , from place to place.
(lb) A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent.
:Units:
::SI: joule (J), kilowatt-hour (kW·h)
::CGS: erg (erg)
::Customary: foot-pound-force, calorie, kilocalorie (i.e. dietary calories), BTU, liter-atmosphere, ton of TNT
(lb) An intangible, modifiable force (often characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative') believed to emanate from a person, place or thing and which is (or can be) preserved and transferred in human interactions; shared mood or group habit; a vibe, a feeling, an impression.
*2004 , Phylameana L. Desy, The Everything Reiki Book , Body, Mind & Spirit,
*:Reiki, much like prayer, is a personal exercise that can easily convert negative energy' into positive ' energy .
*2009 , Christopher Johns, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner , John Wiley & Sons,
*:Negative feelings can be worked through and their energy' converted into positive '''energy'''. In crisis, normal patterns of self-organization fail, resulting in anxiety (negative '''energy'''). Being open systems, people can exchange this '''energy''' with the environment and create positive ' energy for taking action based on a reorganisation of self as necessary to resolve the crisis and emerge at a higher level of consciousness; that is, until the next crisis.
*2011 , Anne Jones, Healing Negative Energies , Hachette,
*:If you have been badly affected by negative energy' a salt bath is wonderful for clearing and cleansing yourself. Salt attracts negative ' energy and will draw it away from you.
A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.
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, title= Anything that causes such a feeling.
* Bible, 1 Thess. ii. 20
* Keats
(obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.
* Spenser
* Dryden
To feel joy, to rejoice.
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*:for oftymes or this oure lord shewed hym vnto good men and vnto good knyghtes in lykenes of an herte But I suppose from hens forth ye shalle see no more / and thenne they Ioyed moche / and dwelled ther alle that day / And vpon the morowe whan they had herde masse / they departed and commaunded the good man to god
*1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18:
*:I swore readily enough to this and he joyed with exceeding joy and embraced me round the neck while love for him possessed my whole heart.
(archaic) To enjoy.
*1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i.2:
*:For from the time that Scudamour her bought, / In perilous fight, she neuer ioyed day.
*Milton
*:Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss.
(obsolete) To give joy to; to congratulate.
*Dryden
*:Joy us of our conquest.
*Prior
*:To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe.
(obsolete) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
*Shakespeare
*:Neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits.
As a noun energy
is the impetus behind all motion and all activity.As a proper noun joy is
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* (capacity to do work) pep, vigor, vim, vitalityDerived terms
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(wikipedia joy)Noun
- a child's joy on Christmas morning
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
- Ye are our glory and joy .
- A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
- Such joy made Una, when her knight she found.
- The roofs with joy resound.