What's the difference between gaiety and mirth?

Gaiety


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Gayety.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the resulting book, Public Faces, he described his character Jane Campbell as “a woman of tact, gaiety, and determination … a confident woman.
  • (2) The women's message was overtly political but the delivery was freighted with lightness and gaiety.
  • (3) Senik concludes that, if the French are to rediscover their sense of gaiety, their education system must play an important role in transforming its citizens' attitudes at an early age.
  • (4) Thus recently I've been scouring friends' timelines looking to add unwelcome sarcasm and scorn to all the gaiety, enthusiasm and affection.
  • (5) In 2007 the regulator ruled that Live Nation and Gaiety Investments needed to sell off Hammersmith Apollo and The Forum before allowing them to buy into Academy Music Group, raising concerns including too much control over ticket pricing.
  • (6) As he itemises the contents of the pawnbroker's shop ("a few old China cups; some modern vases, adorned with paltry paintings of three Spanish cavaliers playing three Spanish guitars; or a party of boors carousing: each boor with one leg painfully elevated in the air by way of expressing his perfect freedom and gaiety …") you sense that Dickens barely knows how to stop.
  • (7) Ludo added much to the stock of public life, education and gaiety, and leaves an army of friends.
  • (8) From his late teens until old age, with a steadily wider audience, he enriched the gaiety of nations and added to the public stock of harmless pleasure.
  • (9) Some were more apparent than real, such as the contrasting (as if a falsity was being shrewdly detected) of the deep seriousness of his public, political utterances with the informal gaiety, even glamour, of his refurbishing of the castle above the Vltava.
  • (10) If the extremists cannot dismantle the system, or the foundations that underpin it – and they know they cannot – then they seek to strike and terrorise ordinary citizens who benefit from the gaiety it offers and the freedom it brings.
  • (11) Thanks to globalization, certain pieces of news add to the gaiety of the planet, rather than merely to the gaiety of the nation.
  • (12) The lesser achievement, though still a worthy one, is the gaiety his tale has added to the nation.
  • (13) Faced with those two choices, I think I’d prefer today’s Fifa: an organisation in rolling permacrisis but at least adding to the gaiety of various nations with a bimonthly tranche of scandalous headlines and the spectacle of hotel staff literally shielding men with their own dirty linen as they are ushered into squad cars.
  • (14) It isn’t the greatest loss to the gaiety of the nation, truth be told.
  • (15) Once premiered this side of the Atlantic at the Dublin's Gaiety theatre two weeks ago.
  • (16) They may add a little to the gaiety of the nation – well, the bit that consumes red-tops anyway – but their loss is not a reason for lamentation.
  • (17) Characteristics of the survivor's syndrome are continuing anxiety of being persecuted, struggle against memory, tension feeling, rumination over past, low self esteem, irritability, feeling of survivor's guilt, lack of initiative, retreat in apathy, unability of gaiety and to enjoy the pleasures of life, and return of the persecution in dreams among others.
  • (18) His global public will be, as Dr Johnson said of David Garrick, "disappointed by that stroke of death" which eclipses his gaiety.
  • (19) Although a man who believed in his star, and fortified as he was by his unquenchable gaiety, Michael Collins yet thought of himself as a doomed man.
  • (20) The consensus fell somewhere between the development adding to the gaiety of the nation, or at least its skyline, and, as one elderly man had it, "silly buggers paying that much to live up in the sky".

Mirth


Definition:

  • (n.) Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity.
  • (n.) That which causes merriment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But the young Sontag could barely contain her mirth: "I just couldn't stop laughing," she says.
  • (2) She laughs raucously again, mirth appearing to be, incongruously, her way of acknowledging pain.
  • (3) Proving that laughter is infectious – and the best antidote – British actor Emma Watson showed Twitter solidarity with thousands of women who have posted mirthful pictures of themselves in defiance of a call by a Turkish politician for women to stop laughing in public.
  • (4) This was greeted with mirth in the courtroom but he was charged with insulting the president, an offence punishable by up to a year in prison.
  • (5) That, at least, is what many people have insisted from antiquity on – while prompting at the same time all kinds of counter-claims that other species share our expression of mirth (monkeys and, most recently, rats being the most common candidates, though there is one suggestion, in an ancient Jewish commentary, that for some reason Aristotle thought herons were laughers too).
  • (6) Anatomists may take an especial interest in the letters No 1903 to HERDER and No 1904 to CHARLOTTE v. STEIN (both dated the March 27, 1784) which demonstrate the discoverer's mirth in finding out the human os intermaxillare.
  • (7) Provoking MPs' schoolboy mirth at the hint of an innuendo to the female MP, the prime minister joked: "Maybe I should start all over again."
  • (8) My Twitter stream, largely metropolitan, explodes with mirth: this’ll take Farage down a peg or two!
  • (9) SEE YOU IN COURT There was much mirth on Twitter when judges in the ninth circuit court of appeals upheld a temporary restraining order on Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban on arrivals from seven Muslim-majority countries.
  • (10) An unfortunate camera angle left pundit Glenn Hoddle's tight trousers in full view, leading to endless mirth on Twitter.
  • (11) Herman Van Rompuy, a man whose very name seems to provoke mirth in anglocentric circles, is known for composing the occasional haiku .
  • (12) Humor measures assessed appreciation (including mirth, subjective ratings, and response sets), comprehension, and production, while competence measures included teacher ratings of classroom behavior, peer reputation, and achievement.
  • (13) He has a soft, almost hushed voice, glasses that press down on the tops of his ears, making them flop over like wings, and a frequent, mirthful smile.
  • (14) The news of Ramos’s remarks sparked mirth amongst the cybersecurity community, who began poking their own holes in the claims.
  • (15) The fact that this particular man has long been characterised as tremendously powerful only adds to the mirth.
  • (16) It is difficult to measure the effect of laughter and mirth on changing one's mindset, but in 12 months not a single instance of death of a child occurred resulting from diarrhea or malnutrition.
  • (17) A different order of difficulty across items, and a different profile of "mirth" responses to the items did, however, correlate with site of lesion.
  • (18) Gallingly, the elevation has also exposed him to the mirth of his old friend Richard Rogers , whose own life peerage he had previously enjoyed teasing.
  • (19) As Claudius said in Hamlet: “With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.” Weddings, to me, feel heavy with expectation, pregnant with emotion, saturated with hope, fear and hard-to-keep promises.
  • (20) To detect changes in these components during a mirthful laughter experience, the authors studied 10 healthy male subjects.