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unjoy en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- (“lack or absence of”) + joy.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The lack or absence of joy; joylessness; sorrow; grief.
   • I wipe away the tears of unjoy before they stain the hideous, stiff bedspread. 2013, Anna Banks, Of Triton:
   • Joy is possible only if we can get through the periods of unjoy. And all rely on another virtue: hope. Hope is what makes patience humanly possible. 1993, Harry John Huebner, David Schroeder, Church as parable: whatever happened to ethics?:

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