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conviviality
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conviviality
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | festivity |
| Synonyms: | entertainment, gaiety, merriment, merrymaking, sociability |
| Main Entry: | carnival |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outdoor celebration |
| Synonyms: | Mardi Gras, amusement park, bacchanal, carny, carousal, circus, conviviality, exposition, fair, feasting, festival, fete, fiesta, frolic, gala, grind show, heyday, jamboree, jollification, jubilee, masquerade, merrymaking, orgy, ragbag, revelry, rout, saturnalia, side show, spree, street fair |
| Main Entry: | celebration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commemoration of occasion, achievement |
| Synonyms: | anniversary, bash*, birthday, blast*, blowout, carousal, ceremony, conviviality, festival, festivity, fete, frolic, gaiety, gala, glorification, hilarity, honoring, hoopla, hullabaloo*, jollification, joviality, jubilation, jubilee, keeping, magnification, memorialization, merriment, merrymaking, observance, party, performance, recognition, remembrance, revelry, saturnalia, solemnization, spree, triumph, wingding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | companionship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship, accompaniment |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, alliance, amity, camaraderie, company, comradeship, conviviality, esprit de corps, rapport, society, togetherness, union |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, strangeness |
| Main Entry: | fellowship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sociability, association |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, affability, alliance, amity, camaraderie, club, communion, companionability, companionship, company, comradeship, conviviality, familiarity, friendliness, guild, intimacy, kindliness, league, order, society, sodality, togetherness |
| Main Entry: | festivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration, revelry |
| Synonyms: | amusement, bash*, blowout, carousal*, clambake, conviviality, do*, entertainment, festival, fun, fun and games, gaiety, happiness, hilarity, hoopla, jamboree, jollity, joviality, joyfulness, levity, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, party, pleasure, revel, reveling, revelment, shindig*, sport, whoopee, wingding |
| Notes: | a festival is a celebration for a specific occasion; festive means joyous, celebratory, or merry; festivity is any joyous diversion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | friendliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | companionability |
| Synonyms: | affability, amiability, amity, benevolence, camaraderie, comity, comradery, congeniality, conviviality, cordiality, friendship, geniality, goodwill, kindliness, kindness, neighborliness, open arms, sociability, warmth |
| Antonyms: | aloofness, coldness, incompatibility |
| Main Entry: | gaiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness, celebration |
| Synonyms: | animation, blitheness, brightness, brilliance, cheer, color, colorfulness, conviviality, effervescence, elation, entertainment, exhilaration, festivity, frolic, fun, geniality, gladness, glee, glitter, good humor, grins, high spirits, hilarity, joie de vivre, jollity, joviality, joyousness, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, pleasantness, radiance, revel, reveling, revelry, shindig*, showiness, sparkle, sport, sprightliness, vivacity, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | sadness, solemnity, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | geniality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme niceness |
| Synonyms: | affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, cheerfulness, cheeriness, congenialness, conviviality, cordiality, enjoyableness, friendliness, gladness, good cheer, good nature, gratefulness, happiness, heartiness, jollity, joviality, joy, joyousness, kindliness, kindness, mirth, pleasance, pleasantness, sunniness, sweetness and light, warmheartedness, warmth |
| Antonyms: | aloofness, coldness, coolness, irritation, moodiness, unfriendliness, unhappiness |
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