as in festivity
joyful or festive activity
I love all of the warmhearted jollity of the holiday season
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Recent Examples of jollity
But even aside from that, Fallon, despite the Strike Force’s five-way jollity, seems like the group’s distractible odd man out.
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Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
Both are also generally spared the over-emphatic jollity that Dehnert has evidently encouraged as a way of plowing through difficult passages of dialogue and forcing the weird jokes to bloom.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 July 2023
And so, in two gorgeous numbers, all the manic jollity disappears.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
Like the bathtub in her garden, everything in her home broadcasts jollity.
—John Lahr, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
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Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
Both are also generally spared the over-emphatic jollity that Dehnert has evidently encouraged as a way of plowing through difficult passages of dialogue and forcing the weird jokes to bloom.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 July 2023
And so, in two gorgeous numbers, all the manic jollity disappears.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
Like the bathtub in her garden, everything in her home broadcasts jollity.
—John Lahr, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jollity
Noun
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Engelbert said the league is looking at possible revisions to the festivities, which this year included only the Skills Challenge and 3-Point Contest.—
Ben Pickman,
New York Times,
20 July 2025
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The proud mom posted pictures from the festivities in Venice, Italy, on Instagram.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
18 July 2025
Noun
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Such is the current state of the world that people are more entitled than ever to a blast of music and merriment, devoid of unsavory downsides.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2025
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There’s no shortage of Christmas culinary merriment for people heading to Orlando during December to ring in the New Year or celebrate the season.—
Caitlin Palumbo,
Forbes,
13 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Their everlasting merrymaking might seem warm and fuzzy at first glance, but in truth, there is a gloomy undercurrent to their existence, hiding just beneath the surface.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
25 May 2025
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Alternatively, the Perry Lane Hotel, as well as the brand-new, Ann Savannah, will put you in the heart of the merrymaking.—
Madeline Weinfield,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Breaking up the wearying journey, devotees gather for outbreaks of extravagant revelry – ground-shaking music and dancing fueled by devotion, ganja and alcohol, as befits in their eyes Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and renewal, to whom the festival is dedicated.—
Aishwarya S. Iyer,
CNN Money,
25 July 2025
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After a few days of revelry—going to sleep at 3 a.m., waking up at 6 a.m., bull runs, lunches, aperitivos, dances—my constitution was reeling.—
Tony Perrottet,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 June 2025
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With the Red Army closing in, such gatherings, expressions of a desperate gaiety, a fin d’une époque efflorescence, weren’t rare.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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With the Red Army closing in, such gatherings, expressions of a desperate gaiety, a fin d’une époque efflorescence, weren’t rare.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Jollity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jollity. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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