merriment

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

merriment
    n 1: a gay feeling [syn: {gaiety}, {merriment}]
    2: activities that are enjoyable or amusing; "I do it for the
       fun of it"; "he is fun to have around" [syn: {fun},
       {merriment}, {playfulness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Merriment \Mer"ri*ment\, n.
   Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic. "Follies and light
   merriment." --Spenser.
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         Methought it was the sound
         Of riot and ill-managed merriment.       --Milton.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

71 Moby Thesaurus words for "merriment":
      amusement, blithesomeness, buoyancy, celebration, cheer,
      cheerfulness, conviviality, elation, enjoyment, exhilaration,
      exuberance, exultation, felicity, festivity, flippancy, frivolity,
      fun, gaiety, glee, gleefulness, good cheer, good spirits,
      happiness, heartiness, high glee, high spirits, hilariousness,
      hilarity, holiday-making, hoopla, jocularity, jocundity,
      jollification, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, joyfulness,
      joyousness, jubilance, jubilation, jubilee, larking, laughter,
      levity, mafficking, merriness, merrymaking, mirth, mirthfulness,
      playfulness, prankishness, pranksomeness, racketing,
      raucous happiness, rejoicing, revel, reveling, revelment, revelry,
      revels, roguishness, show of joy, skylarking, sportiveness,
      trickery, trickiness, triumph, waggery, waggishness, whoopee