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UK
/kənvˌɪvɪˈælɪti/
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NOUN
- a jovial nature
- a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity
How To Use conviviality In A Sentence
- This is L'esprit ACCOR, the breath of France that kindles the spark of conviviality , no matter where you are in the world.
- Booklet photos show the couple in playful mood, and there is this wonderful sense of conviviality in their playing that denotes two musical minds in one accord.
- Since coffee first appeared in Arab society hundreds of years ago it's been associated with conviviality and culture.
- The latter-day leisure-class festivities and entertainments may continue in some slight degree to serve the religious need and in a higher degree the needs of recreation and conviviality, but they also serve an invidious purpose; and they serve it none the less effectually for having a colorable non-invidious ground in these more avowable motives. The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
- Brooks uses the Yiddish word "haimish" to describe what it was the simpler camps had but the luxurious ones did not, a word that "suggests warmth, domesticity and unpretentious conviviality. Michael Rossmann, SJ: Finding God And Community In Simple Dwellings
- At no period of life was I ever what men call intemperate; I never was in the habit of intoxication [the italics are Poe's]; I never drank drams, et cetera; but for a brief period, while I resided in Richmond and edited the Messenger, I certainly did give way, at long intervals, to the temptation held out on all sides to the spirit of Southern conviviality. Edgar Allan Poe -- After Fifty Years
- Look at the stories appearing about the reflowering of social and commercial life in Lebanon–the rebirth of restaurants, coffee shops, and other sites of conviviality–now radically disrupted by renewed violent conflict. In Our Minds
- The magazine also enhanced its reputation for conviviality. Times, Sunday Times
- Just a few of the most famous objects, including the Euphronios krater stolen by tomb robbers and recovered three years ago from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Sarcophagus of the Spouses, an enchanting icon of connubial conviviality, rate display cases of their own. The Joy of Museums That Live in the Past
- Just a few of the most famous objects, including the Euphronios krater stolen by tomb robbers and recovered three years ago from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Sarcophagus of the Spouses, an enchanting icon of connubial conviviality, rate display cases of their own. The Joy of Museums That Live in the Past