festivity

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/fɛˈstɪvəti/

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/fɛˈstɪvəti/ · /fɛˈstɪvɪti/ · /fɪ-/

Definition of festivity

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, uncountable)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.”

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noun

(countable, uncountable)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.”
(countable, uncountable)An experience or expression of celebratory feeling, merriment, gaiety.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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

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