Festivity

Word FESTIVITY
Character 9
Hyphenation fes tiv i ty
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Festivity"

What do we mean by festivity?

A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. noun

The joy and merriment of a festival or celebration. noun

The proceedings or events of a festival. noun

Feasting, or the condition of joy and gaiety becoming a feast; joyfulness; gaiety; social entertainment with merry-making. noun

A festival; a festive event or celebration. noun

The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety. noun

A festival; a festive celebration. noun

A festival or similar celebration. noun

An experience or expression of celebratory feeling, merriment, gaiety. noun

Any joyous diversion noun

(often pluralized) A festival or similar celebration.

An experience or expression of celebratory feeling, merriment, gaiety.

A misspelling of Festivus Urban Dictionary

To have a festival, celebrate, and/or party with great zeal and to an almost superfluous extent. The word combines both festival and celebrate in order to describe a formerly unknown level of revelry. Instead of the normal levels of celebration, partying and festivities, this transcends popular convention to ascertain a deity-like level of merriment. An occasion in which this occurs is known as a festivation. Urban Dictionary

To be extra festive, usually occurs during the holidays. Going all out in terms of trying for festivities. Urban Dictionary

Fun events, such as a fair, festival, or circus. Urban Dictionary

A festival is a music event, usually held outdoors and attended by thousands of music fans. Multiply artists play on usually multiple stages and on some occasions, these festivals last multiple days. Urban Dictionary

A place where people trade rocks for drugs. Urban Dictionary

Getting together with friends and getting stoned and doing mind expanding drugs. Generally on a friday night or during the weekend, but there are occurences of week day festivities on rare occasions. Good times. Urban Dictionary

Festivities is code for having possession of cocaine that you plan on doing that night. Urban Dictionary

Flamboyant, gay Urban Dictionary

Probably Zoe Sugg's (Zoella) most-used word, along with autumnal. Also relates to Christmas. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Festivity

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The word "festivity" in example sentences

One cannot help feeling that much of all this festivity is a mistake: the expenses incurred are far above the means of the parties responsible, and the effect on the Amboinese character is not beneficial. ❋ Unknown (1887)

"The Day of the Holy Cross is our main festivity," Claudio tells us as he makes one of his menu items, Insalate Anne - lettuce, avocado, grapefruit, crabmeat and green apples in a vinaigrette. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The second annual blogging festivity is going to be a little different than last years party. ❋ Unknown (2007)

No club festivity is permitted without the presence of a director; no young man under the influence of liquor is allowed; certain types of dancing often innocently started are strictly prohibited; and above all, early closing is insisted upon. ❋ Unknown (1910)

And the mixture of pain and illness with splendor and festivity, is so unnatural, that probably it is to that we must attribute that a young woman is no where so hardly judged. ❋ Unknown (1796)

But indeed it could hardly be called a festivity, — it was so quiet and sombre. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Those who have chosen to turn their backs on our festivity are the small minority who continue to cling to the anti-human concept and practices of racial arrogance, white minority domination and the super-exploitation of the masses of our people. ❋ Unknown (1989)

Marjorie could not recall a festivity for which she had worked hard beforehand and enjoyed more than the preparation for the freshman hop. ❋ Pauline Lester (N/A)

The central feature of the festivity was a huge kettle, many feet in circumference, into which the Indians dropped the most extraordinary variety of food we had ever seen combined. ❋ Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 (1929)

The central feature of the festivity was a huge kettle, many feet in circumference, into which the ❋ Charles Madison Curry (1906)

But indeed it could hardly be called a festivity, -- it was so quiet and sombre. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)

It happened, that on one day in which she peculiarly wished his attendance at some one of those parties in which Englishmen think the notion of festivity strange -- for it includes conversation -- Volktman had foretold the menace of some great misfortune. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

The festivity is a form of thanksgiving to Divine Providence and memorial of a vow in trade of a good life and is participated in by 13 cities and 19 towns of the province. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My Third Splendid Truth is The days are long, but the years are short, and I find that this kind of festivity helps to slow time, and at least to make time more memorable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Eid is an Arabic word meaning "festivity", while Fiṭr means "to break fast"; and so the holiday symbolizes the breaking of the fasting period. ❋ Photographerno1 (2009)

festivous is not [Festivus] ❋ Holloway (2006)

1. Dude, my bro Josh is coming back from being in Afghanistan for, like, a year. We're throwing a huge [festivation] for him. 2. Yo, it's been a shitty week. I'm gonna hit the clubs and [festivate] so hard in there, I'll get [kicked off] the strip for life! ❋ Randymcgr (2011)

[Cynthia] dressed festivative during [Christmas time] and she looked such [adorb]. ❋ Brochacho Kitten (2017)

Yea, they have [the carnival] [downtown], so we're going to go [enjoy] the festivations. ❋ Rosyln Faulk (2007)

Music fan 1: [Belgian] [festivals] are always the greatest.. Music fan 2: Yeah I know, the bands are always [so rad]... I love it. Music fan 3: Would you guys please shut up?! I'm trying to enjoy the atmosphere here!! ❋ Seya (2007)

Guys at [Camp Bisco] Music Festival: That's a [heady] [tourmaline] dude, I'll give you a hit of L for it. ❋ B-Nugget (2013)

Dude, festivities [tonite]. Don't forget to [hit up] tha [weed man]. ❋ Ffhk1 (2004)

[My neighbor] [Lori] said she has [festivities] planned for tonight, which by the way means she has cocaine. ❋ Siouxsie Supertramp (2020)

"That [slice of pizza] is festive" ❋ Matt Parker (parkman47) (2002)

I'm [feeling] very [festive] today, even though it's [March]. ❋ Zoe Sugg (jokes) (2017)

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