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festivity
Synonyms and Antonyms of festivity
- Rather than mourn our friend's death we celebrated his life, and his memorial service was more notable for its festivity than its funereal gloom.
cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, gaiety (also gayety), gayness, glee, gleefulness, hilarity, jocundity, joviality, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness
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
frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), rollicking, romping
- Year-long festivities will mark the 300th anniversary of the city's founding.
- In keeping with their habit of doing everything in a big way, the couple's wedding will entail a whole weekend of festivity.
conviviality, gaiety (also gayety), jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, rejoicing, reveling (or revelling), revelry
delight, diversion, entertainment, fun, mischief, pleasure, recreation
cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, glee, gleefulness, hilarity, joviality, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness
carnival, celebration, festival, party, revel
frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), rollicking, romping
binge, fling, frolic, gambol, lark, rollick, romp, spree
buffoonery, frivolity, funning, jesting, jocularity, joking, joshing, levity, lightheartedness, playfulness, zaniness
dolefulness, dolor, gloom, gloominess, glumness, grief, heartache, heartbreak, heartsickness, miserableness, misery, mournfulness, mourning, woe, wretchedness
dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, forlornness, joylessness, melancholy, sorrow, unhappiness
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