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Definition: Conviviality |
ConvivialityNoun1. A jovial nature. 2. Boisterous celebration. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conviviality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonyms: ConvivialitySynonyms: jollification (n), joviality (n), merrymaking (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sociality | Conviviality; good fellowship, good company; joviality, jollity, savoir vivre, festivity, festive board, merrymaking; loving cup; hospitality, heartiness; cheer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Conviviality |
| English words defined with "conviviality": Convivialities. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "conviviality": Malakoff ♦ Olives. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Conviviality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Conviviality" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 31 | 62,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
conviviality | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "conviviality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prirje për të bërë qejf, festë (do, feast day, festival, fete, fete day, fiesta, holiday, jamboree, party, red letter day, soiree). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | веселост (boisterousness, gaiety, gladness, hilarity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, pleasantness, pleasantry, sparkle, sprightliness), общителност (geniality, good fellowship, joviality, mellowness, sociability, sociality), празничност. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pohostinnost (hospitality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | geselligkeit (chumminess, companionability, fellowship, folksiness, gregariousness, sociability, social gathering, social intercourse), Fröhlichkeit (blithesomeness, cheerfulness, festiveness, gaiety, gayness, gladness, gleefulness, happiness, jauntiness, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joyance, joyfulness, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κέφι (cheer, fun, gusto, joviality, merriment, mirth, mood, verve), γλέντι (carousal, carouse, festivity, jamboree, jollification, junket, junketing, lark, merry making, reception, revelry, shindig, shindy, spree, wassail), ευθυμία (cheer, festivity, frolic, gaiety, gayness, glee, hilarity, humor, humour, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, resilience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kedélyesség (bonhomie, joviality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | festosit (joyfulness, merriment), festeggiamenti (festivity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gennallys (amiableness, bonhomie, cheerfulness, chirpiness, geniality, glee, jocularity, jollity, joviality, mirth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onvivialitycay sociabilidade (good-fellowship, sociability, sociality), jovialidade (geniality, jocularity, joviality, liveliness, mercuriality, pleasantry, rollick), hospitalidade (entertainment, hospitality), alegria (bliss, cheer, delight, enjoyment, exhilaration, exultancy, felicity, frolic, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, hilarity, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, joy, joyfulness, jubilance, jubilation, light-heartedness, merriment, mirth, pleasure, rejoicing, sunshine, vivacity, whoopee). (various references) veselie (animation, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, exultation, feast, festival, festivity, fiskiness, fling, gaiety, gale, geniality, gladness, great spirits, high spirits, hilarity, jamboree, jauntiness, jocoseness, jocundity, jollification, jollity, joviality, joy, jubilation, merriment, merriness, merry making, mirth, rejoicing, rejoicings), petrecere (amusement, at home, bacchanalia, blow out, bout, carnival, carousal, diversion, do, entertainment, feast, festival, festivity, fling, frolic, gaiety, game, garden party, jamboree, jollity, junket, merry making, party, spree). (various references) веселость (exhilaration, gaiety, hilarity, jocularity, jocundity, joviality, liveliness, pizzazz). (various references) druželjubivost. (various references) socialidad (sociality). (various references) festlighet (festivity, function, gaiety, jollification). (various references) keyif (bliss, cheer, delight, enchantment, exhilaration, glee, high spirits, humor, humour, joviality, joy, Kef, pleasure, rejoicing, temper), eğlence (amusement, bash, beano, blow out, carnival, distraction, diversion, entertainment, festivity, fete, frolic, fun, gag, gaiety, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jolliness, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, play, plaything, racket, recreation, recreational, rejoicing, relaxation, revel, saturnalia, setout, sport), şenlik (carnival, convivial, festival, festivity, fete, fiesta, gaiety, gala, glorification, jubilation, rejoicing), şamata (carrying-on, carryings on, din, dustup, great noise, hell, hilarity, hoo-ha, hubbub, pother, racket, rag, razzle-dazzle, riot, ripsnorter, row, shindy, uproar, whoopee). (various references) святковість (festivity), товариськість (joviality, neighborliness, neighbourliness, sociability, sociality), веселість (airiness, cheerfulness, exhilaration, festivity, gaiety, gladness, hilarity, joviality). (various references) thú vui yến tiệc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | festivitate, festivitatem, festivitates, festivitatis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Conviviality" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: convivality, conviviatity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "conviviality" (pronounced 'Con*viv`i*al"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) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-i-l-n-o-t-v-v-y" | |
-3 letters: ciliation, convivial, inviolacy. | |
-4 letters: civilian, civility, ionicity, olivinic, vicinity, vivacity, vocality. | |
-5 letters: acyloin, anility, anticly, avionic, incivil, initial, invital, ovality, vicinal, vinylic, voltaic. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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