(a.) Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial.
Example Sentences:
(1) It celebrates smoking's conviviality and the splendid isolation of the smoker, the smoker's exhibitionism and her pensive introversion.
(2) There’s a friendly and convivial atmosphere in the beautiful base town of Waterton on the shore of the deepest lake in the Canadian Rockies.
(3) The emphasis is always on conviviality and enjoyment; on learning skills that have been lost over the last few decades – how to cook, grow food, repair and make things.
(4) Further east, in the Arade river nature reserve, is rural turismo Tapada do Gramacho (doubles from €75, tapadadogramacho.com ) with its convivial communal kitchen.
(5) Guests, who included Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, said the serenity encouraged candidness and conviviality.
(6) Desire to drink was greater in both Stressful and Convivial situations for those who scored higher on Neuroticism, Convivial Situations for those higher on Depression (Beck), and Boring situations for those higher on Sensation Seeking.
(7) It doesn't mean we couldn't design a more convivial way that promotes wellbeing.
(8) "It covers the cost of my travel and allows me to meet lots of interesting people – it's a convivial way to travel."
(9) Paris and Brussels are two very similar cities, very dynamic, convivial and warm,” said Hidalgo.
(10) When he ordered the bottle I had hoped sharing a drink might stoke conviviality but as the interview wears on it is clear the booze is to sustain him through the ordeal.
(11) He then became much more convivial, chatting about Washington Heights, where he was from, saying that he’d much rather be at home eating dinner with his family.
(12) It makes for more convivial towns and cities, can produce a more resilient food economy and acts as an important buffer against the extremes of a warming climate.
(13) Two and a half years ago, Women for Independence began as an inspired idea, given life over a convivial meal among like-minded women.
(14) At an EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg on Saturday, the usual diplomatic conviviality unravelled as they failed to agree any practical steps out of the crisis.
(15) Once again, most of us will feel like spectators to the biggest debate about life on earth: whether or not to maintain convivial environmental conditions for human civilisation.
(16) But among the convivial crowds also stood a white man wearing a baseball cap and shirt that read “Hillary for Prison”.
(17) One concern arising from this widened perspective is the degree to which health service provision promotes healthier, more convivial communities.
(18) Still, the relative conviviality concealed major divisions between the security agencies and their congressional overseers.
(19) When Labour’s business team are out with the great and the good from Britain’s boardrooms over a City dinner, there has of late been a moment when the convivial hum of chatter subsides – and someone mentions the mansion tax.
(20) Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian It’s more formal than his old parliamentary digs, which had the convivial feel of salon, or lair.
Conviviality
Definition:
(n.) The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.
Example Sentences:
(1) It celebrates smoking's conviviality and the splendid isolation of the smoker, the smoker's exhibitionism and her pensive introversion.
(2) There’s a friendly and convivial atmosphere in the beautiful base town of Waterton on the shore of the deepest lake in the Canadian Rockies.
(3) The emphasis is always on conviviality and enjoyment; on learning skills that have been lost over the last few decades – how to cook, grow food, repair and make things.
(4) Further east, in the Arade river nature reserve, is rural turismo Tapada do Gramacho (doubles from €75, tapadadogramacho.com ) with its convivial communal kitchen.
(5) Guests, who included Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, said the serenity encouraged candidness and conviviality.
(6) Desire to drink was greater in both Stressful and Convivial situations for those who scored higher on Neuroticism, Convivial Situations for those higher on Depression (Beck), and Boring situations for those higher on Sensation Seeking.
(7) It doesn't mean we couldn't design a more convivial way that promotes wellbeing.
(8) "It covers the cost of my travel and allows me to meet lots of interesting people – it's a convivial way to travel."
(9) Paris and Brussels are two very similar cities, very dynamic, convivial and warm,” said Hidalgo.
(10) When he ordered the bottle I had hoped sharing a drink might stoke conviviality but as the interview wears on it is clear the booze is to sustain him through the ordeal.
(11) He then became much more convivial, chatting about Washington Heights, where he was from, saying that he’d much rather be at home eating dinner with his family.
(12) It makes for more convivial towns and cities, can produce a more resilient food economy and acts as an important buffer against the extremes of a warming climate.
(13) Two and a half years ago, Women for Independence began as an inspired idea, given life over a convivial meal among like-minded women.
(14) At an EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg on Saturday, the usual diplomatic conviviality unravelled as they failed to agree any practical steps out of the crisis.
(15) Once again, most of us will feel like spectators to the biggest debate about life on earth: whether or not to maintain convivial environmental conditions for human civilisation.
(16) But among the convivial crowds also stood a white man wearing a baseball cap and shirt that read “Hillary for Prison”.
(17) One concern arising from this widened perspective is the degree to which health service provision promotes healthier, more convivial communities.
(18) Still, the relative conviviality concealed major divisions between the security agencies and their congressional overseers.
(19) When Labour’s business team are out with the great and the good from Britain’s boardrooms over a City dinner, there has of late been a moment when the convivial hum of chatter subsides – and someone mentions the mansion tax.
(20) Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian It’s more formal than his old parliamentary digs, which had the convivial feel of salon, or lair.