gayety

Hitherto, said he, my life has been too much a life of gayety and action, to be busied so innocently.

But there was this noticeable in Gertrude: whatever took away from her gayety increased her tenderness.

There was no laughter, none of the gayety with which one has so often reproached this race—but neither were there any tears.

Gayety, wit, and ingenuity are their ruling character: they aspire not to the sublime; still less to the pathetic.