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Festivities vs Revelry - What's the difference?

festivities | revelry |

As nouns the difference between festivities and revelry

is that festivities is while revelry is joyful merry-making.

festivities

English

Noun

(head)
  • the events that happen at a festival

    • revelry

    English

    Noun

    (revelries)
  • Joyful merry-making.
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • The women pale and staring under the sun. In plain skirts, drab shoes. In hair scarves. Their drunken revelry jars.

    Synonyms

    * celebration, festivity, revelment

    Derived terms

    * revelrous