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Mirth is merriment and gaiety accompanied with laughter; jollity and joviality. It is enjoying the companionship of others in a form of happiness accompanied by laughter. The origin is of Old English myrgth. The term can be used both singular or plural.

[edit] Usage

1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily, that, though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again obliged to join him in his mirth.

That which causes merriment. 1922: James Joyce, Ulysses Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.

[edit] See Also

• Happiness
• Laughter