festivity - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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

festivity (countable and uncountable, plural festivities)

  1. (often pluralized) A festival or similar celebration.
    • 1811, The Literary Panorama, and National Register, volume 9, page 871:
      Other parts of the ceremony have their unpleasantnesses; for there is great difficulty in admittings and omittings of guests to the festivities.
    • 1982, Inside Sports, volume 4, page 86:
      […] cosmeticky women whose tight jeans and stiletto heels suggest a kind of festivity but whose faces seem stunned […]
    • 1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 28-34:
      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.

festival

experience or expression

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