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infestivity

infestivity noun: a lack of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth.

Noun

infestivity (uncountable)

  1. A lack of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth.
    • Her days of infestivity were plainly ended, and her days of gladness were to begin.1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter XV, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, →OCLC...
    • Moreover, Caillette experienced a superior sadness, sifted through years of infestivity and gloom.1903, Frederic Stewart Isham, Under the Rose (2009 reprint), p. 70

Origin of infestivity

From in- + festivity.

Questions about infestivity

What does infestivity mean?
Infestivity means a lack of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth.
What part of speech is infestivity?
Infestivity is a noun.

Words near infestivity in the dictionary

  1. infestin
  2. infesting
  3. infestins
  4. infestious
  5. infestive
  6. infestivity
  7. infestment
  8. infestments
  9. infests
  10. infestuous
  11. infeudate

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