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

  gaiety \gai"e*ty\ (g[=a]"[-e]*t[y^]), n.
     Same as {Gayety}.
     [1913 Webster]

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



  Gayety \Gay"e*ty\, n.; pl. {Gayeties}. [Written also {gaiety}.]
     [F. gaiet['e]. See {Gay}, a.]
     1. The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or
        entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight;
        -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the
        season.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress.
  
     Syn: Liveliness; mirth; animation; vivacity; glee;
          blithesomeness; sprightliness; jollity. See
          {Liveliness}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gaiety
       n 1: a gay feeling [syn: {merriment}]
       2: a festive merry feeling [syn: {playfulness}]

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

  174 Moby Thesaurus words for "gaiety":
     Technicolor, animal spirits, animation, beatification, beatitude,
     bewitchment, blatancy, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness,
     blitheness, bravery, brazenness, bright color, brightness,
     brilliance, buoyancy, capersomeness, celebration, cheer,
     cheerfulness, cheeriness, chiffon, clinquant, cloud nine, color,
     colorfulness, coltishness, conviviality, crudeness, dash, dazzle,
     dazzlingness, delectation, delight, ecstasy, ecstatics, elan,
     elation, enchantment, entertainment, esprit, exaltation,
     exhilaration, extravagance, extravaganza, extravagation,
     exuberance, exultation, felicity, festivity, festoons, finery,
     flagrancy, flamboyance, flashiness, folderol, foofaraw, frilliness,
     frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, friskiness,
     frolicsomeness, froufrou, fuss, gamesomeness, garishness, gaudery,
     gaudiness, gayness, geniality, gilding, gilt, gingerbread,
     gladness, glare, glee, glitter, good cheer, good spirits,
     gorgeousness, gusto, happiness, heartiness, heaven, high spirits,
     hilarity, holiday-making, hoopla, intensity, intoxication,
     jauntiness, jazziness, joie de vivre, jollification, jollity,
     joviality, joy, joyance, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation,
     larking, life, liveliness, loudness, luridness, mafficking,
     meretriciousness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, mirthfulness,
     obtrusiveness, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, panache, paradise,
     paste, pinchbeck, piss and vinegar, playfulness, pleasantness,
     pleasure, pure color, racketing, radiance, rapture, ravishment,
     rejoicing, revel, reveling, revelment, revelry, revels, richness,
     rollicksomeness, rompishness, saturation, sensationalism,
     seventh heaven, shamelessness, showiness, skittishness, skylarking,
     spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiness, sportiveness,
     sprightliness, sunshine, superfluity, tawdriness, tinsel,
     transport, trappings, trickery, trumpery, unalloyed happiness,
     verve, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, vividness, vulgarness,
     whoopee, winsomeness, zest, zestfulness, zip
  
  

















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