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Definition: Festivity |
FestivityNoun1. Any joyous diversion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "festivity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: FestivitySynonym: celebration (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat. |
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: Festivity |
| English words defined with "festivity": blowout ♦ Convival ♦ Feast day, Festivities ♦ gala, gala affair, Gala day ♦ Infestivity ♦ jamboree, Joyace ♦ Revelous, Revel-rout ♦ Shroving ♦ The holidays ♦ Utas ♦ Wassail bowl. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "festivity": Cap, Christmas Tree ♦ Hand ♦ Parisian Wedding, Pearls ♦ Running. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "festivity": Encomium. (references) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Mingle dignity with festivity, eat with deliberation, feast slowly. |
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| "Festivity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Festivity" is used about 21 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% | 21 | 76,261 |
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 |
canada day festivity | 18 |
festivity | 12 |
4th festivity july | 10 |
canada day festivity ottawa | 5 |
festivity fourth july | 5 |
festivity pub.com | 4 |
catering festivity | 3 |
festivity publication | 3 |
wedgwood festivity | 2 |
canada day festivity in ottawa | 2 |
4 festivity july | 2 |
20th anniversary festivity | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "festivity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kremtim (celebration, ceremony, fete), gosti (celebration, dinner party, entertainment, feast, festival, junket, junketing, merry-meeting, party, razzle, razzle-dazzle, reception, regale, spread), gëzim (cheer, enjoyment, gaiety, gladness, glee, joy, merriment, mirth, rejoice, waggery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مهرجان (carnival, celebration, festival, gala), مراسيم إحتفالية, لهو (amusement, distraction, diversion, fun, lark, pastime, sport), عيد (feast, festival, gala, holiday, rejoicing), إحتفالية (solemnity), إبتهاج (acclamation, airiness, buoyancy, cheer, cheerfulness, ecstasy, exhilaration, exultation, festival, gaiety, joy, jubilation, lustiness, pleasure, rejoicing, spree, sunshine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тържественост (grandiloquence, red carpet, solemnity, state). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zábava (amusement, delectation, distraction, diversion, entertainment, fun, kick, occupation, pastime, ploy, pursuit, recreation, sport, treat), veselí (amusement, cheerfulness, exhilaration, glee, jollification, merriment, mirth, rejoicing, spree), radovánky (rejoicing, revelry, wassail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | juhlailo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | festivités, festivité, fête (feast, festival, fete), réjouissance (festival), joie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Festlichkeit (celebration, ceremony, festiveness, fiesta, solemnity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γλέντι (carousal, carouse, conviviality, jamboree, jollification, junket, junketing, lark, merry making, reception, revelry, shindig, shindy, spree, wassail), πανηγύρι (carnival, carnival 1, fair, feast, festival, fete), ευθυμία (cheer, conviviality, frolic, gaiety, gayness, glee, hilarity, humor, humour, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, resilience), εορτασμόσ (celebration, commemoration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ח'י'יות (solemnity), ח'י'" (celebration, festival, fete, gala), "לול" (celebration, feast, revel, spree), טקסים ח'י'יים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ünnepség (feast, festival, fete, jollities), ünnep (feast, festival, holiday, holy day). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | festivit , festeggiamenti (conviviality), festa (Bank holiday, binge, celebration, do, feast, festival, fete, gaudy, holiday, holifay, jamboree, party), gala (bow, frill, gala, jabot, luxury, pomp, ribbon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 稚児 (baby, child, festivity page). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | feaillys (sacredness, vacation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | festlighet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estivityfay festividade (gala). (various references) festivitate (fete), festivitãţi, veselie (animation, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, conviviality, exultation, feast, festival, 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), serbare (celebration, feast, festival, fete), petrecere (amusement, at home, bacchanalia, blow out, bout, carnival, carousal, conviviality, diversion, do, entertainment, feast, festival, fling, frolic, gaiety, game, garden party, jamboree, jollity, junket, merry making, party, spree), galã (fete, gala, state). (various references) веселье (cheer, fun, gaiety, gladness, glee, hilarity, jamboree, jinks, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, merry-making, mirth, revel, revelry, shindig, shindy, spree, sunshine, the bowl, tittup), празднование (celebration, commemoration, rejoicing, solemnization). (various references) veselje (celebration, frolic, hilarity, jollification, joy, merriment, merrymaking, rollick), svečanost (celebration, ceremony, exercise, fete, gala, powwow, seriousness, solemnity), praznik (festival, holiday). (various references) festividad (celebration, festiveness). (various references) firande (celebration, glorification), feststämning (gay atmosphere), festlighet (conviviality, function, gaiety, jollification), festivitas, festglädje, fest (celebration, do, feast, fest, festival, fete, fiesta, frolic, junket, party, revel). (various references) การเฉลิมฉลอง. (various references) festival (carnival, fair, feast, festival, festive), eğlence (amusement, bash, beano, blow out, carnival, conviviality, distraction, diversion, entertainment, 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), cümbüş (bash, bender, binge, blast, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, metal mandolin, racket, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, riot, saturnalia, spree), şenlik (carnival, convivial, conviviality, festival, fete, fiesta, gaiety, gala, glorification, jubilation, rejoicing). (various references) святковість (conviviality), веселість (airiness, cheerfulness, conviviality, exhilaration, gaiety, gladness, hilarity, joviality). (various references) sự vui mừng (cheerfulness, gladness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness). (various references) ysbleddach (merriment), rhialtwch (jollity, pomp), miri (fun, merriment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ezem. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | festivitate, festivitatem, festivitates, festivitatis, festum. (various references) |
| German | 100 BCE-Modern | Fest. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | mondream. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | festivalis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Festivity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hecticity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "festivity" (pronounced festi"vutē) |
| 6 | -t i" v u t ē | activity, captivity, conductivity, connectivity, creativity, hyperactivity, inactivity, insensitivity, nativity, negativity, objectivity, oversensitivity, productivity, radioactivity, reactivity, receptivity, relativity, retroactivity, selectivity, sensitivity, subjectivity, superconductivity. |
| 5 | -i" v u t ē | aggressivity, exclusivity, expressivity, passivity, proclivity, progressivity, reflexivity. |
| 4 | -v u t ē | brevity, cavity, depravity, gravity, hypersensitivity, levity, longevity, velvety. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, causality, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, necessity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, profanity, profitability, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, readability, reality, reciprocity, regularity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, security, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, suitability, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-i-s-t-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: testify. | |
-3 letters: feisty, fyttes. | |
-4 letters: feist, fives, fytte, ivies, testy, titis, visit, yetis, yetts. | |
-5 letters: efts, fets, fist, fits, five, seif, sett, sift, site, stet, stey, stye, test, tets, ties, titi, tits, tivy, tyes, vest, vets, vies, vise, yeti, yett. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 73 74 69 76 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . ... - .. ...- .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e s t i v i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0073 0074 0069 0076 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407185867588758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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