Status: Working
Type: Borrowed / translated from Estonian
One-sentence definition
Töörõõm: Joy connected with work—the satisfaction or pleasure received from doing the work itself.[1]
Why the term is useful
It turns “joy at work” from a perk surrounding the job into a quality of the activity: the small satisfactions of making, solving, helping, learning, or finishing something well.
Origin / coined by
An Estonian word combining töö (work) and rõõm (joy). The Estonian Language Institute defines it as joy connected with work or received from doing work.[1]
Example
A carpenter pauses over a clean joint that no customer may notice. The satisfaction belongs to the work itself, not only to praise, pay, or completion.
- Arbejdsglæde
- Craft
- Intrinsic motivation
Sources and notes
This entry uses the narrower dictionary meaning rather than treating töörõõm as a general synonym for workplace happiness.
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