Conviviality [ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]
… interaction Keywords Community Conviviality Hilarity Politics Song Toasting Conviviality was a term used to describe a particular form of masculine sociable gathering that developed in the late eighteenth century which emphasized eating and … derives from the Latin term convivialis (pertaining to a feast), and means dining together, with connotations of light-hearted joviality and good fellowship. 1 As an adjective it had been used in this way in English since the seventeenth … Sociability and conviviality both idealized the importance of wit, spontaneity, and adapting words and actions to the particularities of the occasion. Where convivial meetings differed, however, was in their more structured proceedings, …
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