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Conviviality vs Merriment - What's the difference?

conviviality | merriment |

As nouns the difference between conviviality and merriment

is that conviviality is (uncountable) the state of being convivial while merriment is a state of enjoyable exuberance.

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

    • merriment

    English

    Noun

  • a state of enjoyable exuberance
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  • playful fun
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