Thesaurus
festivity
Synonyms and Antonyms of festivity
- rather than mourn our friendʼs 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
animation, giddiness, jauntiness, liveliness, perkiness, vivacity
joyfulness, joyousness, jubilance, rejoicing
frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), rollicking, romping
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
- year-long festivities will mark the 300th anniversary of the cityʼs founding
jamboree, jollification, jollity [British], merriment, merrymaking, rejoicing, revel, revelry
- in keeping with their habit of doing everything in a big way, the coupleʼs wedding will entail a whole weekend of festivity
conviviality, gaiety (also gayety), jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, rejoicing, reveling (or revelling), revelry, whoopee
delight, diversion, entertainment, fun, mischief, pleasure, recreation, riot
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, clownery, clownishness, flippancy, frivolity, funning, jesting, jocularity, joking, joshing, levity, lightheartedness, playfulness, zaniness
blackness, darkness, dolefulness, dolor, gloom, gloominess, glumness, grief, heartache, heartbreak, heartsickness, miserableness, misery, mournfulness, mourning, woe, wretchedness
dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, dumps, forlornness, joylessness, melancholy, sorrow, unhappiness
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