Meaning of GAIETY
Pronunciation: | | 'geyitee
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- [n] a festive merry feeling
- [n] a gay feeling
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| Synonyms: | | merriment, playfulness |
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| See Also: | | glee, gleefulness, happiness, hilarity, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, levity, mirth, mirthfulness | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Gai"e*ty\, n.
Same as {Gayety}.
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| Related Terms: | | animal spirits, animation, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blatancy, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, blitheness, bravery, brazenness, bright color, brightness, brilliance, buoyancy, capersomeness, celebration, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, chiffon, clinquant, cloud nine, color, colorfulness, coltishness, conviviality, crudeness, dash, dazzle, dazzlingness, delectation, delight, ecstasy, ecstatics, elan, elation, enchantment, entertainment, esprit, exaltation, exhilaration, extravagance, extravaganza, extravagation, exuberance, exultation, felicity, festivity, festoons, finery, flagrancy, flamboyance, flashiness, folderol, foofaraw, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, friskiness, frolicsomeness, froufrou, fuss, gamesomeness, garishness, gaudery, gaudiness, gayness, geniality, gilding, gilt, gingerbread, gladness, glare, glee, glitter, good cheer, good spirits, gorgeousness, gusto, happiness, heartiness, heaven, high spirits, hilarity, holiday-making, hoopla, intensity, intoxication, jauntiness, jazziness, joie de vivre, jollification, jollity, joviality, joy, joyance, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, larking, life, liveliness, loudness, luridness, mafficking, meretriciousness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, mirthfulness, obtrusiveness, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, panache, paradise, paste, pinchbeck, piss and vinegar, playfulness, pleasantness, pleasure, pure color, racketing, radiance, rapture, ravishment, rejoicing, revel, reveling, revelment, revelry, revels, richness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, saturation, sensationalism, seventh heaven, shamelessness, showiness, skittishness, skylarking, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiness, sportiveness, sprightliness, sunshine, superfluity, tawdriness, Technicolor, tinsel, transport, trappings, trickery, trumpery, unalloyed happiness, verve, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, vividness, vulgarness, whoopee, winsomeness, zest, zestfulness, zip |
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