conviviality
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a friendly or agreeable quality.
We owe our enthusiasm to the business people who share their craft and knowledge with such camaraderie, conviviality, and community spirit.
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feasting, drinking, and merry company.
I’m teaching these folks the so-called civilized way of celebrating Christmas, so we'll have two days of conviviality, complete with wine and plum brandy.
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a festive quality.
There will be live music, arts and crafts, storytelling, and a general air of conviviality that will charm the hardest of souls.
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In Mr. Harris’s telling, the crotchetiness of Mr. David’s fictional stand-ins is offset in real life by his talent and even conviviality; at the University of Maryland, he was elected fraternity president.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The final seconds provided a private tartan torture chamber for this small clan engulfed by conviviality.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
He enjoyed the conviviality, however foreign it was to him.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2023
Underlying the conviviality of the first bilateral summit to be held in Japan in a dozen years was the question of how long the fragile truce between the two countries will last.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
Much of the old conviviality of rowing was gone.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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