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Festivity vs Buffoonery - What's the difference?

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Festivity is a related term of buffoonery.


As nouns the difference between festivity and buffoonery

is that festivity is (often|pluralized) a festival or similar celebration while buffoonery is foolishness, silliness; the behaviour expected of a buffoon.

festivity

English

Noun

(festivities)
  • (often, pluralized) A festival or similar celebration.
  • An experience or expression of celebratory feeling, merriment, gaiety.

    • Antonyms

    * infestivity

    buffoonery

    English

    Noun

    (buffooneries)
  • foolishness, silliness; the behaviour expected of a buffoon.
  • * 1693 : William Congreve, The Old Bachelor
    • Araminta, come, I'll talk seriously to you now; could you but see with my eyes the buffoonery of one scene of address, a lover, set out with all his equipage and appurtenances; ...
  • * 1814 : Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
    • One could not expect anybody to take such a part. Nothing but buffoonery from beginning to end.
  • * before 1891 : P.T. Barnum, quoted in The Life of Phineas T. Barnum [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1576]
    • The Temperance Reform was too serious a matter for trifling jokes and buffooneries .