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Examples of festivity in a Sentence
The decorations give the hall an air of festivity.
The festivities will include a parade, a concert, and games for children.
We enjoyed the New Year's Eve festivities.
Recent Examples of festivity from the Web
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Tirschwell — now the executive director of the Shulamith School for Girls in Cedarhurst (Long Island), N.Y. — flew in for the festivities.
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Meanwhile, a regional government official says all public festivities scheduled in Barcelona are temporarily canceled.
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The free, family-friendly festivities will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 1 at Northeastern’s headquarters, 13396 Salmon River Road in Rancho Penasquitos.
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Tickets: eventbrite.com/e/camping-rv-parking-for-total-solar-eclipse-tickets-32373562196 MB Roland Distillery, around 10 miles southeast of Hopkinsville, will be holding weekend long festivities with food trucks and live music.
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Conway's family has lived in Laurel for 25 years and the city's Fourth of July festivities have long been a staple on the family calendar.
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Senator Steve Daines told The Washington Post, recalling how the president had recounted the festivities in Paris.
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Here is the Media Days schedule, with TCU leading off the festivities after Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby ruminates.
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At the same time, the government prepared to celebrate the anniversary of its victory over political dissidents with huge rallies and festivities.
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First Known Use of festivity
14th century
festivity Synonyms
Synonyms
cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, mirth, gaiety (also gayety), gayness, glee, gleefulness, hilarity, jocundity, joviality, merriment, merriness, mirthfulnessRelated Words
frivolity, levity; jollification, jollity, reveling (or revelling), revelry; brightness, buoyancy, good-humoredness, good-naturedness, humor, sunniness; gamesomeness, insouciance, lightheartedness, playfulness, sportiveness; buffoonery, clownishness, flippancy, funning, jest, jesting, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, joking, joshing; animation, giddiness, jauntiness, liveliness, perkiness, vivacity; joyfulness, joyousness, jubilance, rejoicing; frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), rollicking, rompingNear Antonyms
blues, dejection, depression, despondence, forlornness, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness; bile, gloom, melancholy, sourness, spleen; earnestness, graveness, gravity, grimness, seriousness, soberness, sobersidedness, solemnity, solemnness; discontent, disgruntlement, moodiness; dolefulness, dolorousness, joylessness, mournfulness, plaintiveness, woe, woefulness; blackness, darkness, gloominess, glumness; desolateness, desolation; heartbreak, miserableness, misery, mourning, wretchednessFESTIVITY Defined for English Language Learners
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