Thesaurus
festivity
Synonyms and Antonyms of festivity
1
a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter
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
2
a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something
jamboree, jollification, jollity [British], merriment, merrymaking, rejoicing, revel, revelry
3
joyful or festive activity
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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