Synonyms of festivity

festivity

noun

1

as in cheerfulness

a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheerfulness
• glee
• merriness
• cheer
• gayety
• mirth
• merriment
• joviality
• joyfulness
• hilarity
• cheeriness
• gaiety
• mirthfulness
• revelling
• gleefulness
• brightness
• gayness
• humor
• reveling
• joking
• revelry
• frivolity
• jocundity
• jollity
• funning
• levity
• playfulness
• jollification
• buoyancy
• joyousness
• lightheartedness
• vivacity
• liveliness
• sunniness
• sportiveness
• giddiness
• animation
• jocularity
• buffoonery
• rejoicing
• insouciance
• jubilance
• flippancy
• jocosity
• jauntiness
• jesting
• jocoseness
• gamesomeness
• perkiness
• rollicking
• clownishness
• gambolling
• joshing
• good-naturedness
• frolicking
• good-humoredness
• romping
• gamboling
• jest

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sorrow
• sadness
• melancholy
• unhappiness
• depression
• blues
• dejection
• gloom
• solemnity
• seriousness
• gravity
• bile
• spleen
• earnestness
• forlornness
• discontent
• despondence
• sourness
• grimness
• soberness
• woe
• darkness
• moodiness
• mournfulness
• solemnness
• disgruntlement
• blackness
• joylessness
• gloominess
• plaintiveness
• graveness
• mourning
• misery
• glumness
• desolation
• sobersidedness
• wretchedness
• heartbreak
• desolateness
• woefulness
• dolefulness
• dolorousness
• miserableness

2

as in celebration

a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something

year-long festivities will mark the 300th anniversary of the city's founding

Synonyms & Similar Words

• celebration
• festival
• fiesta
• carnival
• jubilee
• gala
• fête
• fete
• fest
• revelry
• merriment
• rejoicing
• merrymaking
• exhibit
• jollity
• exhibition
• revel
• jollification
• fair
• jamboree
• show
• exposition
• exercises
• honors

3

as in merrymaking

joyful or festive activity

in keeping with their habit of doing everything in a big way, the couple's wedding will entail a whole weekend of festivity

Synonyms & Similar Words

• celebration
• merrymaking
• gayety
• revelry
• cheerfulness
• festival
• merriment
• jollity
• gaiety
• jollification
• rejoicing
• fun
• conviviality
• enjoyment
• entertainment
• cheer
• joy
• revelling
• reveling
• merriness
• mirth
• carnival
• riot
• whoopee
• happiness
• joviality
• delight
• glee
• diversion
• pleasure
• hilarity
• cheeriness
• carousal
• recreation
• revel
• mischief
• carouse
• playfulness
• funning
• frivolity
• party
• rollicking
• levity
• mirthfulness
• joking
• lightheartedness
• jocularity
• gleefulness
• buffoonery
• romping
• flippancy
• romp
• lark
• frolic
• jesting
• spree
• gambol
• frolicking
• gambolling
• binge
• zaniness
• fling
• gamboling
• rollick
• clownishness
• clownery
• joshing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• mourning
• grief
• misery
• gloom
• darkness
• blackness
• woe
• gloominess
• wretchedness
• heartache
• heartbreak
• sorrow
• melancholy
• dolor
• mournfulness
• glumness
• unhappiness
• dejection
• depression
• miserableness
• heartsickness
• despondency
• dolefulness
• doldrums
• dumps
• joylessness
• forlornness
• despondence
• downheartedness
• dispiritedness
• disconsolateness