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festivity

noun
/fɛˈstɪvəti/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English festivite, from Middle French festivité, from Latin festīvitas, equivalent to festive + -ity.

  1. derived from festīvitas
  2. derived from festivité
  3. inherited from festivite

Definitions

  1. A festival or similar celebration.

    • Other parts of the ceremony have their unpleasantnesses; for there is great difficulty in admittings and omittings of guests to the festivities.
    • […] cosmeticky women whose tight jeans and stiletto heels suggest a kind of festivity but whose faces seem stunned […]
    • The real reason for these subdued responses was the fact that the audience knew it would be a fight to the finish; they were saving their screams for the posedown festivities to come.

  2. An experience or expression of celebratory feeling, merriment, gaiety.

The neighborhood

  • antonyminfestivityantonym(s) of “experience or expression of celebratory feeling, merriment”

Derived

unfestivity

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA