Conviviality
[kən,vɪvɪ'æləti]
Definition
(n.) The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Festivity, joviality, jollity, gayety, merry-making.
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Examples
- With this exception, their good-humour was completely restored; and the evening concluded with the conviviality with which it had begun. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The streets present a lively and animated appearance, occasioned chiefly by the conviviality of the military. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- While Edison was in Cincinnati a delegation of five union operators went over from Cleveland to form a local branch, and the occasion was one of great conviviality. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Cedric would have avoided pledging her in this ominous conviviality, but the sign which she made to him expressed impatience and despair. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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