gaiety

Etymology
, from. .

Noun

 * 1)  The state of being happy or merry.
 * 2)  Merrymaking or festivity.
 * 1)  Merrymaking or festivity.
 * 1)  Merrymaking or festivity.
 * 1)  Merrymaking or festivity.
 * 1)  Merrymaking or festivity.

Usage notes

 * Gaiety is not used to refer to sexual orientation, the word for which is . Despite this, gaiety has largely fallen out of use due to the adjective gay's semantic shift in that direction.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: munterhed
 * Finnish: ,
 * Georgian: მხიარულება, სიმხიარულე
 * German:, Glücklichsein
 * Irish: meidhir
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ハピネス
 * Maori: hiwa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Walloon: