joydom

English

Etymology

From joy +‎ -dom.

Noun

joydom (uncountable)

1. (rare) The state or condition of joy or of being joyful; exhilaration; enjoyment.
   • 1943, Frank Alfred Lea, Carlyle: prophet of to-day:

     All the people are in a sort of joydom over the new French Republic,' he wrote to Emerson, 'which has descended suddenly (or shall we say, ascended, alas!) out of the Immensities upon us; […]

   • 1950, Dornford Yates, Lower Than Vermin:

     I trust he is full with joydom to be with his scholars again." Not daring to trust her voice, Vivien inclined her head.

   • 1991, Xam Wilson Cartiér, Muse-echo blues:

     When you thought of Chicago, you thought of the joydom called Jazz.

   • 2005, Theodore Russell Weiss, Renée Karol Weiss, The Always Present Present: Letters, Poems:

     Your cummings joydom joydoms me. He has, as you see, that innocence & fraternity of things I love so much, that easy oneness with the world: the world in his hands is a sauntering along, a song, a gaiety as of a late spring rain […]

   • 2007, Robert H. Cataliotti, The Songs Became the Stories:

     The association of Chicago with "the joydom of jazz" inspires Lena to name her son after the city, yet the impulse to find a creative outlet through the music is so strong that it prompts her to abandon her child when her husband attempts to stifle her creativity and career.