Brightness
Brightness noun - The quality or state of having or giving off light.
Joy and brightness are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Joy" instead a noun "Brightness".
Joy
Joy noun - A feeling or state of well-being and contentment.
Brightness and joy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brightness" instead a noun "Joy".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Please, please Oda, make Zoro have a Mushroom Samba episode and bring joy and brightness to the Earth.
Source: Cloud Cuckoolander / Anime -
In Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl", the eponymous girl dies, and her dead grandmother carries her soul to Heaven: "They both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God."
Source: Heaven
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