joie de vivre

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French joie de vivre (literally “joy of living”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌʒwɑ də ˈviv(ɹə)/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌʒwɑː də ˈviːvɹə/
• Rhymes: -iːvɹə

Noun

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Wikipedia

joie de vivre (uncountable)

1. Enjoyment of living; happiness, ebullience, zest for life.
   • 1984 April 21, “P'Town for Memorial Day (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 18:

     2 LF (young 38 & 47 friends only) without lovers seeking similar for fun weekend in P'Town. Enjoy good food, dancing and joie de vivre.

   • 2017 December 15, Ruby Lott-Lavigna, “I Spent a Day Eating at the Most Instagrammable Restaurants of 2017”, in VICE‎:

     By this point, I am losing enthusiasm. It’s really lonely going around and eating at places without a friend, and cold brown rice is hardly inspiring my joie de vivre.

Related terms

• bon vivant

Translations

enjoyment of living, zest for life

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Basque: bizipoz (eu) Chinese: Mandarin: 生活情趣 (shēnghuó qíngqù), 生活樂趣 / 生活乐趣 (shēnghuó lèqù) Danish: livsglæde c, livslyst c Dutch: levensvreugde (nl) f, levenslust (nl) m, joie de vivre (nl) f Esperanto: vivĝojo Faroese: lívsgleði Finnish: elämänilo, elämänhalu French: joie de vivre (fr) f Galician: delicia de vivir f German: Lebensfreude (de) f, Lebenslust (de) f Hindi: जीने की ख़ुशी f (jīne kī xuśī) Hungarian: életöröm (hu) Icelandic: lífsgleði f Italian: gioia di vivere f Japanese: 生きる歓び (いきるよろこび, ikiru yorokobi) Kannada: ಬಾಳಸವಿ (kn) (bāḷasavi), ಜೀವನ ಮಾಧುರ್ಯ (kn) (jīvana mādhurya), ಜೀವನದ ಸುಖೋತ್ಕರ್ಷ (kn) (jīvanada sukhōtkarṣa) Korean: please add this translation if you can Latvian: dzīvesprieks m, dzīves prieks m Limburgish: laeveslös (li) m Luxembourgish: liewensfreed Norwegian: Bokmål: livsglede m or f, livslyst m or f Nynorsk: livsglede f, livslyst f Polish: radość życia f Portuguese: alegria de viver f Romanian: bucurie de a trăi f Russian: жизнера́достность (ru) f (žiznerádostnostʹ) Spanish: alegría de vivir f Swedish: livsglädje (sv) c, livslust (sv) c Ukrainian: життєра́дісність f (žyttjerádisnistʹ) Uzbek: xushchaqchaqlik (uz) Vietnamese: niềm vui sống

French

FWOTD – 12 June 2017

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒwa d(ə) vivʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

joie de vivre f (uncountable)

1. joie de vivre, zest for life

   Antonym: mal de vivre

   respirer la joie de vivre ― to breathe the joy of life

   • 2005, Gilles Asselin, Ruth Mastron, with Marianne Seïte-Karner (translator), Français-Américains: ces différences qui nous rapprochent, Alban Editions, page 304:

     Apprenez à apprécier la joie de vivre française.

     Learn to appreciate the French joie de vivre.

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French joie de vivre (literally “joy of living”).

Noun

joie de vivre

1. joie de vivre, zest for life

Further reading

• “joie de vivre” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.