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Joy vs Depth - What's the difference?

joy | depth |

As nouns the difference between joy and depth

is that joy is a feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good while depth is the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep.

As a verb joy

is to feel joy, to rejoice.

As a proper noun Joy

is {{given name|female|from=English}}.

joy

English

(wikipedia joy)

Noun

  • A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.
    • a child's joy on Christmas morning
  • * , chapter=10
    • , title= 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.}}
  • Anything that causes such a feeling.
  • * Bible, 1 Thess. ii. 20
    • Ye are our glory and joy .
  • * Keats
    • A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
  • (obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.
  • * Spenser
    • Such joy made Una, when her knight she found.
  • * Dryden
    • The roofs with joy resound.

    Antonyms

    * (feeling of happiness) infelicity, joylessness, unhappiness, unjoy

    Derived terms

    * bundle of joy * cocky's joy * enjoy * joyance * joyful * joygasm * joyless * joyous * joy ride * joystick * jump for joy * killjoy * no joy * overjoy * traveller's joy * unjoy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To feel joy, to rejoice.
  • *:
  • *: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.

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    depth

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep.
    • Measure the depth of the water in this part of the bay.
  • The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet.
  • (figuratively) The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
    • The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone.
    The depth of the crisis had been exaggerated.
    We were impressed by the depth of her knowledge.
  • Lowness.
    • the depth of a sound
  • (computing, colors) The total palette of available colors.
  • (arts, photography) The property of appearing three-dimensional.
    • The depth of field in this picture is amazing.
  • (literary, usually plural) The deepest part. (Usually of a body of water.)
    • The burning ship finally sunk into the depths .
  • (literary, usually plural) A very remote part.
    • Into the depths of the jungle...
    In the depths of the night,
  • The most severe part.
    • in the depth of the crisis
    in the depths of winter
  • (logic) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
  • (horology) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.
  • (statistics) The lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values.
    • {{examples-right, width=40%, sense=statistics, examples=
    Ordered Batch of 9 Values
    Value153245484956697797
    Depth 123454321
    }}

    Synonyms

    * deepness

    Related terms

    * deep * depth charge * in depth * out of one's depth