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INFESTIVITY

Definition: INFESTIVITY

INFESTIVITY

Noun

1. Want of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth; dullness; cheerlessness.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: INFESTIVITY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dejection

Heaviness; Adjective: infestivity, gloom; weariness; taedium vitae, disgust of life; mal du pays; (regret); anhedonia.

Dullness

Noun: dullness, heaviness, flatness; infestivity ; stupidity; want of originality; dearth of ideas.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "INFESTIVITY"

Words rhyming with "INFESTIVITY" (pronounced 'In`fes*tiv"i*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. (additional references)

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Anagrams: INFESTIVITY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-i-i-i-n-s-t-t-v-y"

-2 letters: festivity.

-3 letters: niftiest, vinifies.

-4 letters: finites, invites, nifties, tensity, testify, tiniest, viniest.

-5 letters: entity, feints, feisty, finest, finite, fyttes, infest, invest, invite, seniti, sitten, vinify.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: INFESTIVITY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 4E 46 45 53 54 49 56 49 54 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -.    ..-.    .    ...    -    ..    ...-    ..    -    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01001110 01000110 01000101 01010011 01010100 01001001 01010110 01001001 01010100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#78 &#70 &#69 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#73 &#84 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004E 0046 0045 0053 0054 0049 0056 0049 0054 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4348403953544356435459

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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