Festivity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Festivity \Fes*tiv"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Festivities}. [L. festivitas:
     cf. F. festivit['e].]
     1. The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration
        of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety.
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              The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth.
                                                    --Bp. Hurd.
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     2. A festival; a festive celebration. --Sir T. Browne.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  festivity
       n : any joyous diversion [syn: {celebration}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  168 Moby Thesaurus words for "festivity":
     Kaffeeklatsch, Mardi Gras, Saturnalia, amusement, anniversaries,
     assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, ball, banquet, blowout,
     boisterousness, brawl, carnival, caucus, celebrating, celebration,
     celebrations, ceremony, cheer, cocktail party, coffee klatch,
     colloquium, commemoration, commission, committee, conclave,
     concourse, congregation, congress, conventicle, convention,
     conviviality, convocation, costume party, council, dance, date,
     diet, dinner, dinner party, do, donation party, dressing ship,
     eisteddfod, elation, entertainment, exultation, fair, fanfare,
     fanfaronade, feast, felicity, festival, festive occasion, fete,
     field day, fiesta, flourish of trumpets, forgathering, forum,
     frivolity, fun and games, gaiety, gala, gala affair, gala day,
     garden party, gathering, get-together, glee, good cheer,
     great doings, heartiness, hen party, high jinks, hilarity, holiday,
     holiday-making, hoopla, house party, house-raising, housewarming,
     jamboree, jollification, jollity, joviality, joyance, joyfulness,
     jubilance, jubilation, jubilee, kermis, larking, lawn party, levee,
     mad round, mafficking, marking the occasion, mask, masque,
     masquerade, masquerade party, meet, meeting, memorialization,
     memory, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, observance, ovation, panel,
     party, picnic, plenum, prom, quorum, racketing, rally,
     raucous happiness, reception, regale, regalement, rejoicing,
     religious rites, remembrance, rendezvous, revel, reveling,
     revelment, revelry, revels, rite, ritual observance,
     round of pleasures, salute, salvo, seance, session, shindig,
     shindy, show of joy, shower, sit-in, sitting, skylarking, smoker,
     soiree, solemn observance, solemnization, stag, stag party,
     surprise party, symposium, synod, testimonial, testimonial banquet,
     testimonial dinner, toast, treat, tribute, triumph, turnout,
     waygoose, wayzgoose, whoopee