jollity

noun

jol·​li·​ty ˈjä-lə-tē 

plural jollities

1

: the quality or state of being jolly : merriment

2

British : a festive gathering

Synonyms

• conviviality
• festivity
• gaiety
• gayety
• jollification
• merriment
• merrymaking
• rejoicing
• reveling
• revelling
• revelry
• whoopee

Examples of jollity in a Sentence

I love all of the warmhearted jollity of the holiday season.

Recent Examples on the Web

Sign up Eating and drinking (Image credit: Riverside Luxury Cruises) The first thing to say about eating on The Ravel is that there is no Captain's Table or forced jollity with other passengers. —James Rampton, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024

While the jollity may look a bit different from city to city, these global destinations keep the holiday cheer going year after year. —Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Nov. 2023

But even aside from that, Fallon, despite the Strike Force’s five-way jollity, seems like the group’s distractible odd man out. —Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023

Both are also generally spared the over-emphatic jollity that Dehnert has evidently encouraged as a way of plowing through difficult passages of dialogue and forcing the weird jokes to bloom. —Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 July 2023

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

jollity

noun

jol·​li·​ty ˈjäl-ət-ē 

plural jollities

: merrymaking sense 1, gaiety