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Amity vs Conviviality - What's the difference?

amity | conviviality |

As nouns the difference between amity and conviviality

is that amity is (formal|literary) friendship the cooperative and supportive relationship between people, or animals in this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, affection, and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis while conviviality is (uncountable) the state of being convivial.

amity

English

Noun

(amities)
  • (formal, literary) friendship. The cooperative and supportive relationship between people, or animals. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, affection, and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis.
  • * 1922': To my native place / Bent upon returning, / Bosom all day burning / To be where my race / Well were known, 'twas much with me / There to dwell in '''amity . — Thomas Hardy, 'Welcome Home,' in ''Lyrics Late and Earlier, 1922
  • Mutual understanding and a peaceful relationship, especially between nations; peace; accord.

    • Synonyms

    * friendliness * friendship

    Antonyms

    * enmity * hostility * enemyship

    Related terms

    * amiable * amicable * amorous

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    conviviality

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being convivial
  • * 2009 , Gary Clark, Quadrant , November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 8:
    • He will not abide intellectually lazy thinking or any form of acquiescence to political correctness and its facile rituals of politeness and forced conviviality .
  • (countable) A jovial spirit or activity