joy vs laughter

joy

noun
  • A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good. 

  • Anything that causes such a feeling. 

  • Luck or success; a positive outcome. 

verb
  • To feel joy, to rejoice. 

laughter

noun
  • A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. 

  • The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound. 

How often have the words joy and laughter occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )