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Jollity

Noisy mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity; boisterous enjoyment.

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Amiability 76% connected

The quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of disposition.

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Gaiety 76% connected

Same as Gayety.

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Merriment 76% connected

Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic.

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Jolly 74% connected

Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.

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Jolly 74% connected

Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.

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Jolliness 92% connected

Jollity; noisy mirth.

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Joviality 92% connected

The quality or state of being jovial.

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Bluster verb · 78% connection

To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to s…

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Blustering adjective · 78% connection

Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous.

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Boisterous adjective · 78% connection

Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior.

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Boistous adjective · 78% connection

Rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous; noisy.

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Cheer noun · 78% connection

Gayety; mirth; cheerfulness; animation.

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Convival adjective · 78% connection

pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial.

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Convivial adjective · 78% connection

Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial.

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Conviviality noun · 78% connection

The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.

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Frolic noun · 78% connection

A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.

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Frolicly adverb · 78% connection

In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety.

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Frolicsome adjective · 78% connection

Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive.

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Galliardise adjective · 78% connection

Excessive gayety; merriment.

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Gayety adjective · 78% connection

The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural…

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Glee noun · 78% connection

Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.

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Go noun · 78% connection

Noisy merriment; as, a high go.

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Hilarity noun · 78% connection

Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity.

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Infestivity noun · 78% connection

Want of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth; dullness; cheerlessness.

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Jollification noun · 78% connection

A merrymaking; noisy festivity.

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