What's the difference between gaiety and hilarity?

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".

Hilarity


Definition:

  • (n.) Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of the patients with peripheral lung cancer lesions smaller than 2 cm who underwent surgery, 21% had peribronchial, hilar, or mediastinal lymph node metastasis.
  • (2) Two patients had hilar lymph node metastases, one of them had also involvement of pericardium.
  • (3) Among patients with N1 disease we observed more frequent hilar metastases in the more advanced tumors (p less than 0.05).
  • (4) After injection of HRP-WGA into the contralateral hippocampus 2% of hilar NPY-i neurons were retrogradely labeled and symmetric NPY-i synapses were found on the cell bodies and dendrites of unstained HRP-WGA labeled neurons.
  • (5) Her chest roentgenogram showed a moderate amount of pleural effusion in the left pleural cavity without infiltration in the lung fields and no evidence of swollen hilar or mediastinal lymphnodes.
  • (6) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
  • (7) In 17 patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma and intrahepatic bile duct dilatation, the relationships between lobar or segmental atrophy, compensatory hypertrophy, and patency of portal vein branches were evaluated with computed tomography (CT) and angiography.
  • (8) Thus, it was concluded that CDDP is very effective for patients with lung cancer and that CDDP administered by BAI is useful for hilar-type squamous cell carcinoma.
  • (9) The main finding is a hyperlucent lung with small hilar shadows on chest x-ray.
  • (10) The management team gets changed, amid much hilarity when a continental breakfast of croissants and fruit is brought in.
  • (11) Presence or absence of lung cancer and the presence and severity of silicosis of the parenchyma, pleura, and hilar glands were documented from necropsy reports.
  • (12) The earliest formed SSIR neurons, generated on E12 and E13, are preferentially distributed to the subiculum, those generated on E14 are most commonly observed throughout the CA1-CA3 fields of the hippocampus and SSIR neurons which become postmitotic on E15 are more heavily represented in the hilar region of the dentate gyrus than cells born at other stages of development.
  • (13) Hemorrhage, congestion, consolidation, edema and fibrin exudation were prominent in the hilar region of the lungs.
  • (14) Discordance in antigen expression between primary and metastatic lesions (ie, positive primary tumors with negative metastatic lesions and negative primary tumors with positive metastatic lesions) was observed in the following order of frequency: extrathoracic metastatic lesion, contralateral lung, mediastinal lymph node (N2), and ipsilateral peribronchial and hilar (N1) lymph nodes.
  • (15) The chest roentgenographic findings in Takayasu's arteritis include widening of the ascending aorta, contour irregularities of the descending aorta, arotic calcifications, pulmonary arterial changes, rib notching, and hilar lymphadenopathy.
  • (16) Eighty animals were divided into four equal groups: I--splenectomy, II--50% splenectomy with the upper half left in situ connected to the short gastric vessels, III--50% splenectomy with the lower half left in situ connected to the hilar vessels, and IV--splenectomy with implantation of splenic fragments.
  • (17) It was concluded that intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomy for unresectable hepatic hilar carcinoma, contributed to a temporary return to normal life, gave better results than external biliary drainage.
  • (18) Pleural lesions, bronchial ectasis and mediastinal and hilar lymph node changes could be diagnosed.
  • (19) Two patients with sarcoidosis involving pulmonary hilar lymph nodes developed the nephrotic syndrome.
  • (20) Twenty-five out of 33 patients with the lymph nodes metastases had hilar metastatic lymph nodes.