conviviality

[kuhn-viv-ee-al-i-tee]

noun

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

Other Word Forms

• nonconviviality noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of conviviality¹

convivial ( def. ) + -ity ( def. )

Example Sentences

Some liberals, too, lament the rebrand, though largely for different reasons: they see it as another step in the long flattening of American restaurants, where corporate sleekness overtakes idiosyncrasy, hospitality or even basic conviviality.

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“Joy is an act of resistance,” state party Chairman Rusty Hicks gamely suggested at a beer-and-wine reception, which opened the party’s annual three-day convention with as much conviviality as the downtrodden could muster.

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The Danish community was a wonderful way to grow up, with folk-dance classes and parties and such conviviality — all those smoking Danes, cigars up the wazoo, the whole place filled with smoke!

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He enjoyed the conviviality, however foreign it was to him.

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But I have had some of the richest experiences of companionability and conviviality at George's table, breaking bread.

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