Gaiety vs Entertainment - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The state of being happy.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 (countable) Merrymaking or festivity.
An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.
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a show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others
(obsolete) maintenance or support
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Admission into service; service.
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(obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
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Entertainment is a synonym of gaiety.
As nouns the difference between gaiety and entertainment
is that gaiety is The state of being happy while entertainment is an activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.gaiety
English
Noun
citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety . She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
Synonyms
* (state of being happy) gaynessentertainment
English
(wikipedia entertainment)Alternative forms
* entretainment (chiefly archaic)Noun
(en noun)- The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.
