Gaiety vs Pleasantry - 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.
A casual, courteous remark
A playful remark; a jest
* 2014 , Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard'' (in ''The Guardian , 18 November 2014)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/18/scotland-england-international-friendly-match-report]
As nouns the difference between gaiety and pleasantry
is that gaiety is The state of being happy while pleasantry is a casual, courteous remark.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) gaynesspleasantry
English
Noun
(pleasantries)- Charlie Mulgrew could easily have been shown two yellow cards by a stricter referee and amid all the usual Anglo-Scottish pleasantries , the two sets of fans put an awful lot of effort into trying to drown out one another’s national anthems.