Festival vs. Festivity — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Festival and Festivity
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Festival
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid.
Festivity
A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival.
Festival
A day or period of celebration, typically for religious reasons
Traditional Jewish festivals
Festivity
The joy and merriment of a festival or celebration.
Festival
An organized series of concerts, plays, or films, typically one held annually in the same place
A major international festival of song
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Festivity
Festivities The proceedings or events of a festival.
Festival
An occasion for feasting or celebration, especially a day or time of religious significance that recurs at regular intervals.
Festivity
A festival or similar celebration.
Festival
An often regularly recurring program of cultural performances, exhibitions, or competitions
A film festival.
Festivity
An experience or expression of celebratory feeling, merriment, gaiety.
Festival
Revelry; conviviality.
Festivity
The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety.
The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth.
Festival
Of, relating to, or suitable for a feast or festival; festive.
Festivity
A festival; a festive celebration.
Festival
Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. Now only as the noun used attributively.
Festivity
Any joyous diversion
Festival
(Bible) A feast or feast day.
Festival
An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.
The Reading and Leeds festivals take place on the August bank holiday.
A Welsh eisteddfod is a literary festival.
Festival
In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
Festival
Fried cornbread.
Festival
Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.
I cannot woo in festival terms.
Festival
A day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration
Festival
An organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place);
A drama festival
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