joyance means Enjoyment, joy, delight. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
JOYANCE — [Noun] The active state or process of experiencing joy; delight consciously inhabited and prolonged. Coined by poet Edmund Spenser (c. 1590) from English 'joy' (from Old French 'joie', ultimately from Latin 'gaudia') + the noun-forming suffix '-ance' (denoting state or action). Unlike “joy,” which names the emotion as a static point, or “revelry,” which implies clamorous, communal festivity, joyance is the quieter, sustained hum of being glad. It is the deliberate savoring of sun on closed eyelids, the private smile at a well-turned line in a book, or the soft, continuous thrill of a shared silence that needs no filling—a willful attendance to a happiness that knows its own transience.
noun
- Enjoyment, joy, delight.“So forth they marchen in this goodly fort, / To take the ſolace of the open aire, / And in freſh flowring fields themſelues to ſport; / Emongſt the reſt rode that falſe Lady faire, / The foule Dueſsa, next vnto the chaire / Of proud Lucifer’, as one of the traine: / But that good knight would not ſo nigh repaire, / Him ſelfe eſtraunging from their ioyaunce vaine, / Whoſe fellowſhip ſeemd far vnfit”