GAYETY

Definitions: GAYETY

GAYETY

Adjective

1. Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress.

2. The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "GAYETY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Gayety \Gay"e*ty\, noun; plural Gayeties. [Written also gaiety.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: GAYETY

Synonyms: animation, blithesomeness, glee, hilarity, jollity, liveliness, mirth, sprightliness. (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cheerfulness	Noun: cheerfulness; Adjective: geniality, gayety, l'allegro, cheer, good humor, spirits; high spirits, animal spirits, flow of spirits; glee, high glee, light heart; sunshine of the mind, sunshine of the breast; gaiete de coeur, bon naturel.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: GAYETY

English words defined with "GAYETY": Blitheful, Bonniness ♦ Frisker, Frolicly ♦ Galliardise, Galliardness, Gayeties, Gaysome ♦ Joyace. (references)

Etymologies containing "GAYETY": Frolicly ♦ Galliardness. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Isak Dinesen's Art: The Gayety of Vision (A Phoenix Book ; P628) (reference) The gayety of grace (reference) (more book examples)
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	The national restlessness makes for a gayety and charm of its own.Credit: Library of Congress.		Gayety Theatre, Washington, D.C.Credit: Library of Congress.
	A White House reception--President and Mrs. Roosevelt restore the old-time gayety to society in Washington / Ch. Weber.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "GAYETY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Romanian		bucurie (cheerfulness, comfort, delight, ecstasy, enjoyment, exhilaration, exultation, felicity, gladness, glee, gusto, happiness, joy, merriment, merriness, mirth, pleasure, rapture, raptures, treat). (various references)

Thai		ความสนุกสนาน (gaiety, gameness, gust). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"GAYETY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gaity, gayetty, gayity, gazeti, Ghayoit, giety, Guidetti, Guyatt, layety. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "GAYETY" (pronounced 'Gay"e*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability, Alterity, Alternity, Amability, Ambidexterity, Ambiguity, Amenability, Amenity, Amiability, Amicability, Amissibility, Amity, Amorosity, Amovability, Anaplasty, Anfractuosity, Anglicity, Angularity, Angulosity, Anility, Animality, Animosity, Annuity, Annularity, Anonymity, Anteriority, Antiquity, Anxiety, Appetibility, Applicability, Apprehensibiity, Approachability, Appropinquity, Apriority, Aqueity, Aquosity, Aridity, Artificiality, Asininity, Asperity, Assiduity, Assignability, Assimilability, Associability, Astucity, Atomicity, Atrocity, Attainability, Attractability, Attractivity, Audacity, Audibility, Austerity, Authenticity, Authority, Autoplasty, Autostability, availability, Avidity, Banality, Barbarity, Basicity, Batty, BEAUTY, Benignity, Bestiality, Betty, Bibacity, Biblicality, Biformity, Bilaterality, Biplicity, Bipolarity, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Brevity, Bridalty, Brutality, Butty, Caducity, Calamity, Calidity, Caliginosity, Callidity, Callosity, Caloricity, Canonicity, Canthoplasty, Canty, Capability, Capacity, Capillarity, Captivity, Cariosity, Carnality, Carnivoracity, Carnosity, Casualty, Catholicity, Catty, Causality, Cavity, Cecity, Celebrity, Celerity, Centrality, Centricity, Cerebricity, Certainty, Champerty, Changeability, Charity, Chastity, Cheiloplasty, Christianity, Circuity, Circularity, Circumstantiality, Civillty, Clandestinity, Clarity, Clericity, Clivity, Clotty, Coactivity, Coagulability, Coequality, Coessentiality, Coeternity, Cogitability, Cognoscibility, Cohesibility, Collectivity, Colloidality, Columnarity, Combustibility, Comicality, Comity, Commensality, Commensurability, Commodity, Commonalty, Commonty, Communicability, Community, Commutability, Compaternity, Compatibility, Complexity, Complicity, Comprehensibility, Compressibility, Concavity, Concentricity, Conceptibility, Concinnity, Condensability, Condignity, Conditionality, Conducibility, Conductibility, Conductivity, Confinity, Confluxibility, Conformability, Conformity, Confraternity, Confusability, Congeniality, Congruity, Conicality, Conjugality, Connaturality, Connubiality, Consanguinity, Consentaneity, Conspectuity, Conspicuity, Constitutionality, Consubstantiality, Contemporaneity, Contemptibility, Contiguity, Continuity, Contractibility, Contractility, Contrariety, Controllability, Conventionality, Convertibility, Convexity, Convicinity, Conviviality, Cordiality, Coreplasty, Corporality, Corporeality, Corporeity, Corrigibility, Corrodibility, Corrosibility, Corruptibility, Cosurety, Cotqueanity, County, Credibility, Credulity, Criminality, Crinosity, Crocodility, Crudity, Cruelty, Cullibility, Culpability, Cupidity, Curability, Curiality, Curiosity, Curvilinearity, Curvity, Cutty, Cylindricity, Cytty, Damnability, Debility, Debonairity, Deceptivity, Deciduity, Declivity, Deducibility, Defectibility, Defectuosity, Defensibility, Deflagrability, Deformity, Deiformity, Deity, Demisability, Democraty, Demonstrability, Demurity, Density, Deplorability, Depravity, Deputy, Descendibility, Desirability, Despicability, Destructibility, Deteriority, Determinability, Detestability, Devexity, Devotionality, Dexterity, Dextrality, Diaphaneity, Dibasicity, Dicacity, Didacticity, Difficulty, Difformity, Diffusibility, Diffusivity, Digestibility, Dignity, Dilatability, Dimensity, Dimity, Disability, Disassiduity, Discommodity, Discommunity, Disconformity, Discongruity, Discontinuity, Discoverability, Disensanity, Disformity, Dishonesty, Disingenuity, Disloyalty, Disparity, Disproperty, Disputacity, Disquantity, Disreputability, Disrespectability, Dissimilarity, Dissipativity, Dissociability, Dissolubility, Dissolvability, Distensibility, Disunity, Diuturnity, Diversifiability, Diversity, Divinity, Divisibility, Docility, Docity, Domesticity, Dotty, Doty, Doughty, Drasty, Duality, Dubiety, Dubiosity, Ductility, Duplicity, Durability, Durity, Duty, Dynasty, Ebriety, Ebriosity, Eccentricity, Edacity, Edibility, Educability, Efficacity, Effumability, Egality, Egoity, Elasticity, Electorality, Elementality, Elementarity, Eligibility, Ellipticity, Emotivity, Empty, Enmity, Enomoty, Enormity, Entierty, Entirety, Entity, Ephoralty, Epulosity, Equability, Equality, Equanimity, Equilibrity, Equity, Erectility, Essentiality, Eternity. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-t-y-y"
	-2 letters: gate, geta.
	-3 letters: age, ate, aye, eat, eta, gae, gat, gay, get, gey, tae, tag, tea, teg, tye, yay, yea, yet.
	-4 letters: ae, ag, at, ay, et, ta, ya, ye.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-t-y-y"
	+5 letters: glycosylate, pyrargyrite.
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