Conviviality

Word CONVIVIALITY
Character 12
Hyphenation con viv i al i ty
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Conviviality"

What do we mean by conviviality?

The state of being convivial

A jovial spirit or activity

The act of being convivial, to be friendly and agreeable and to meet with others for feasting, drinking and merry company. Urban Dictionary

An adjective which describes someone who is benificent; someone who throws a feast or celebration at the drop of a hat Urban Dictionary

Erm it means kind of a friendly atmosphere, probably associated with the word conversation or conversational Urban Dictionary

When two people are polite and friendly towards each other but actually detest each other. Urban Dictionary

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The word "conviviality" in example sentences

The cap is then sent round for contributions towards a further instalment of the foundation of conviviality, which is fetched from the canteen or the sergeant's mess; and another and yet another supply is sent for, as long as the funds hold out and somebody keeps sober enough to act as Ganymede. ❋ Archibald Forbes (1869)

How do you think the leadership can get around to this kind of conviviality that we're seeing here? ❋ Unknown (2009)

These upstarts made a sales pitch tuned to our anti-ESF prejudices, promising "human class size," "conviviality" and "a warm welcome." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mr. Bond [Bondfield], and the returns of civility on my part could only be communicated [to] me through the same Channel, a kind of conviviality so tdious and irksome, that I had much rather have remained in silent Observation and Reflection. ❋ Unknown (1961)

I know you can't dine here in consequence of the tempestuous weather on the Covent Garden shores, but if you will come in when you have done Trinculizing, you will delight me greatly, and add in no inconsiderable degree to the "conviviality" of the meeting. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

Often enough this sardonic expert on conviviality didn't range beyond the bar room -- vouchsafing for example, and presumably from experience, that "alcohol is necessary for a man, so that now and then he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts." ❋ David Tereshchuk (2011)

If you take away from food the wholeness of growing it or take away the joy and conviviality of preparing it in your own home, then I believe you are talking about a whole new definition of the human being. ❋ Sarah Lenz (2009)

We appreciate the Celts and their conviviality and then among all these nations we have one huge thing in common. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And he called upon the Virgin to keep the flame of faith alive in all of you, a faith that is nourished by traditions of popular piety with deep roots in the past, which you rightly take care to maintain, so that the warmth of family conviviality in villages and towns may not be lost. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Brooks uses the Yiddish word "haimish" to describe what it was the simpler camps had but the luxurious ones did not, a word that "suggests warmth, domesticity and unpretentious conviviality." ❋ SJ Michael Rossmann (2011)

If you live in a seasonal climate and own a deck, it should soon be the scene of cookouts, cocktails and general conviviality. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The ambiance, even in the crowded capital, is one of conviviality and reflection. ❋ Mark Schuller (2012)

There is something to be said for not unwittingly losing the "warmth and conviviality" in our lives as we grow in our financial prosperity. ❋ Maria Lin (2011)

The result of such intimacy is an unusual sense of the contradictions of a man whose rough manner concealed great kindness, and whose conviviality masked a profound morbidity. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The [gregarious] [host] loved to conviviate, and could bring any party to life with his natural [verve] and ebullience. ❋ Shemsie (2016)

"His Majesty King [Cuthbert] the [Convivial], has hentrusted me with a herrand, a purse of gold and this ['ere] shoe" from: Cinderalla; Act 2 scene 3; by Stuart Ardern and Bob Heather. 1999. ❋ Sean Cranney (2007)

We [spent] many a convivial [evening] at the [pub]. ❋ Frances Wood, Lover Of Dave Grohl (2004)

Are you nuts? That was just a case of [convivial hatred]. She will now make it her mission that [none of that] stuff gets [implemented]! ❋ Cantorjohn (2010)

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