GAIETY
Dictionary entry overview: What does gaiety mean? • GAIETY (noun)
The noun GAIETY has 2 senses:
1. a gay feeling
2. a festive merry feeling
Familiarity information: GAIETY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GAIETY (noun)
Meaning:
A gay feeling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
gaiety; merriment
Hypernyms ("gaiety" is a kind of...):
happiness (emotions experienced when in a state of well-being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gaiety"):
glee; gleefulness; hilarity; mirth; mirthfulness (great merriment)
jocularity; jocundity (a feeling facetious merriment)
jolliness; jollity; joviality (feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor)
Meaning:
A festive merry feeling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
playfulness; gaiety
Hypernyms ("gaiety" is a kind of...):
levity (feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness)
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