Word Meanings - INFESTIVITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

DULLNESS
The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope.
CHEERFULNESS
Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
MIRTHFUL
1. Full of mirth or merriment; merry; as, mirthful children. 2. Indicating or inspiring mirth; as, a mirthful face. Mirthful, comic shows. Shak. -- Mirth"ful*ly, adv. -- Mirth"ful*ness, n.
MIRTHLESS
Without mirth. -- Mirth"less*ness, n.
FESTIVITY
1. The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety. The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth. Bp. Hurd. 2. A festival; a festive celebration. Sir T. Browne.
MIRTH
1. Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity. Then will I cause to cease ... from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth. Jer. vii. 34. 2. That which causes merriment. Shak. Syn. -- Merriment; joyousness; gladness; fun; frolic;
UNDERMIRTH
Suppressed or concealed mirth. The Coronation.
INFESTIVITY
Want of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth; dullness; cheerlessness.