joie de vivre

1. 1.

   a keen enjoyment of living

   Broaderenjoyment

Questions about joie de vivre

What does joie de vivre mean?

joie de vivre means "a keen enjoyment of living".

Is joie de vivre a common word?

joie de vivre is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.