What's the difference between gaiety and gayety?

Gaiety


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Gayety.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the resulting book, Public Faces, he described his character Jane Campbell as “a woman of tact, gaiety, and determination … a confident woman.
  • (2) The women's message was overtly political but the delivery was freighted with lightness and gaiety.
  • (3) Senik concludes that, if the French are to rediscover their sense of gaiety, their education system must play an important role in transforming its citizens' attitudes at an early age.
  • (4) Thus recently I've been scouring friends' timelines looking to add unwelcome sarcasm and scorn to all the gaiety, enthusiasm and affection.
  • (5) In 2007 the regulator ruled that Live Nation and Gaiety Investments needed to sell off Hammersmith Apollo and The Forum before allowing them to buy into Academy Music Group, raising concerns including too much control over ticket pricing.
  • (6) As he itemises the contents of the pawnbroker's shop ("a few old China cups; some modern vases, adorned with paltry paintings of three Spanish cavaliers playing three Spanish guitars; or a party of boors carousing: each boor with one leg painfully elevated in the air by way of expressing his perfect freedom and gaiety …") you sense that Dickens barely knows how to stop.
  • (7) Ludo added much to the stock of public life, education and gaiety, and leaves an army of friends.
  • (8) From his late teens until old age, with a steadily wider audience, he enriched the gaiety of nations and added to the public stock of harmless pleasure.
  • (9) Some were more apparent than real, such as the contrasting (as if a falsity was being shrewdly detected) of the deep seriousness of his public, political utterances with the informal gaiety, even glamour, of his refurbishing of the castle above the Vltava.
  • (10) If the extremists cannot dismantle the system, or the foundations that underpin it – and they know they cannot – then they seek to strike and terrorise ordinary citizens who benefit from the gaiety it offers and the freedom it brings.
  • (11) Thanks to globalization, certain pieces of news add to the gaiety of the planet, rather than merely to the gaiety of the nation.
  • (12) The lesser achievement, though still a worthy one, is the gaiety his tale has added to the nation.
  • (13) Faced with those two choices, I think I’d prefer today’s Fifa: an organisation in rolling permacrisis but at least adding to the gaiety of various nations with a bimonthly tranche of scandalous headlines and the spectacle of hotel staff literally shielding men with their own dirty linen as they are ushered into squad cars.
  • (14) It isn’t the greatest loss to the gaiety of the nation, truth be told.
  • (15) Once premiered this side of the Atlantic at the Dublin's Gaiety theatre two weeks ago.
  • (16) They may add a little to the gaiety of the nation – well, the bit that consumes red-tops anyway – but their loss is not a reason for lamentation.
  • (17) Characteristics of the survivor's syndrome are continuing anxiety of being persecuted, struggle against memory, tension feeling, rumination over past, low self esteem, irritability, feeling of survivor's guilt, lack of initiative, retreat in apathy, unability of gaiety and to enjoy the pleasures of life, and return of the persecution in dreams among others.
  • (18) His global public will be, as Dr Johnson said of David Garrick, "disappointed by that stroke of death" which eclipses his gaiety.
  • (19) Although a man who believed in his star, and fortified as he was by his unquenchable gaiety, Michael Collins yet thought of himself as a doomed man.
  • (20) The consensus fell somewhere between the development adding to the gaiety of the nation, or at least its skyline, and, as one elderly man had it, "silly buggers paying that much to live up in the sky".

Gayety


Definition:

  • (a.) The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season.
  • (a.) Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress.

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