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Festivity vs Carnival - What's the difference?

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Festivity is a related term of carnival.


As a noun festivity

is (often|pluralized) a festival or similar celebration.

As a proper noun carnival is

the season just before the beginning of the has its mardi gras carnival.

festivity

English

Noun

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

    • Antonyms

    * infestivity

    carnival

    English

    (wikipedia carnival)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
  • (US English) a traveling amusement park, called a funfair in UK English.

    • Derived terms

    * carnival glass * carny * carnivalesque * carnivalistic

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