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jollification

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Synonyms & Antonyms of jollification

joyful or festive activity

each year the mountain men of the Old West would gather for a week of carousing, tall tale-telling, and general jollification

Synonyms for jollification

conviviality,
festivity,
gaiety
(also gayety),
jollity,
merriment,
merrymaking,
rejoicing,
reveling
(or revelling),
revelry,
whoopee

Words Related to jollification

carousal,
carouse

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

enjoyment,
happiness,
joy

binge,
fling,
frolic,
gambol,
lark,
rollick,
romp,
spree

buffoonery,
clownery,
clownishness,
flippancy,
frivolity,
funning,
jesting,
jocularity,
joking,
joshing,
levity,
lightheartedness,
playfulness,
zaniness

Near Antonyms for jollification

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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“Jollification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jollification. Accessed 15 Jan. 2021.

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