Joy · common
joyful
Deep, brimming gladness: happiness with its roots showing.
- On the face
- The whole face smiling at once, cheeks high.
- Ink recipe
- happy 65 · disgusted 55 · surprised 45
More on being joyful
Joy with its roots showing. Where happiness is a weather, joy is a climate: deeper, steadier, harder to explain and impossible to fake. It tends to arrive uninvited and stay longer than expected.