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gaiety

noun

gai·​ety ˈgā-ə-tē How to pronounce gaiety (audio)
variants or less commonly gayety
plural gaieties
1
: merrymaking
also : festive activity
often used in plural
2
: high spirits : merriment
3

Example Sentences

The party had none of the gaiety we've seen in past years. the gaiety of the carnival
Recent Examples on the Web In spite of the temperature, a festal gaiety was rising. Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022 His tall, broad-shouldered hunchback stomps around the court in the multi-colored motley teasing his master and his henchmen with seeming good-natured gaiety. Bill Hirschman, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Mar. 2022 Television put her very American appeal on full display: her charm, her gaiety. Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021 There is no place, not even India, where the use of color produces as beguiling a mixture of gaiety and melancholy as Mexico. New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021 There is something heroic in the desperate gaiety with which Crane and Cora insisted on living well until the end. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021 Yes, an adornment to society, a man who added to the gaiety of life. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 July 2021 Its unique note is the simultaneous striking of many notes; of humility, of gaiety, of gratitude, of mystical fear, but also of vigilance and of drama. Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Dec. 2020 These same two items—Cary Grant’s cheapness and his gaiety—play throughout Mr. Eyman’s lengthy biography. Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

earlier, "cheerfulness," borrowed from Middle French gayeté, going back to Old French, from gai gay entry 1 + -eté -ity

First Known Use

1634, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of gaiety was in 1634

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