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jollity
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈdʒɒl.ə.ti/ us /ˈdʒɑː.lə.t̬i/
the quality of being jolly (= happy and smiling), or behaviour that shows this:
There was music, dancing, and a great deal of jollity.
forced jollityThe evening had a slight feeling of forced jollity about it.
jollities[ plural ]UKold-fashioned
celebrations at which people enjoy themselves:
In the lull between Christmas jollities and New Year celebrations, there's time to look back at the past year.
His early work, as Spain's court painter, is all jollity and pastoral frolics.
Much of the time, an air of jollity prevails.
He had a way of bobbing up and down under the force of his own jollity.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Feeling pleasure and happiness
(as) pleased as Punchidiom
ASMR
be dancing in the streetsidiom
be floating on airidiom
be full of the joys of springidiom
cheery
chipper
chirpily
chirpy
chuffed
gruntled
happily
happy camper
happy placeidiom
jaunty
sunnily
swooning
swooningly
swoony
take delight in something/doing something
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