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conviviality
Meaning: warm friendliness and lively enjoyment in company
conviviality in a sentence
How conviviality is used in real sentences:
The host's easy humor brought conviviality to an otherwise formal dinner.
As the evening continued, the formal banquet warmed into genuine conviviality.
“The impresario, hoping for conviviality around a shared supper table, repeatedly proposed a meeting and received two courteous refusals.”
— from the passage An Opera by Post
Synonyms for conviviality
Other words for conviviality — sociability, friendliness and geniality — carry the same meaning.
- sociability
- friendliness
- geniality
Antonyms of conviviality
Words that mean the opposite of conviviality:
- hostility
- aloofness
- gloom
Where it comes from
From Latin convivium, meaning 'feast.'
Memory hook
CON-VIVIAL: conviviality is the lively warmth shared with companions.
Practice conviviality in the app