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festivities

festivities is the plural of festivity.

Meaning of festivity

Noun

festivity (countable and uncountable, plural festivities)

  1. (often pluralized) A festival or similar celebration.
    • Other parts of the ceremony have their unpleasantnesses; for there is great difficulty in admittings and omittings of guests to the festivities.1811, The Literary Panorama, and National Register, volume 9, page 871
  2. An experience or expression of celebratory feeling, merriment, gaiety.

Questions about festivities

What is festivities the plural of?
Festivities is the plural of festivity.

Words near festivities in the dictionary

  1. festive
  2. festive season
  3. festive seasons
  4. festively
  5. festiveness
  6. festivities
  7. festivity
  8. festivous
  9. Festivus
  10. Festivus pole
  11. Festivus poles

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