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infestivity en · NOUN

Etymology

From in- + festivity.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A lack of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth.
    • Moreover, Caillette experienced a superior sadness, sifted through years of infestivity and gloom. 1903, Frederic Stewart Isham, Under the Rose (2009 reprint), p. 70
    • Her days of infestivity were plainly ended, and her days of gladness were to begin. 1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter XV, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, →OCLC, book the first (George Somerset), page 231:
    • May Week. . . . As in every year, that infamous week was dragging its boorish heels with remarkable infestivity. 1989, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, Arcade, published 1998, →ISBN, page 256: