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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
gaiety \gai"e*ty\ (g[=a]"[-e]*t[y^]), noun Same as {Gayety}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gayety \Gay"e*ty\, noun; pl. {Gayeties}. [Written also {gaiety}.] [F. gaiet['e]. See {Gay}, adjective]
1. 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.
2. Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress.
Syn: Liveliness; mirth; animation; vivacity; glee; blithesomeness; sprightliness; jollity. See {Liveliness}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
gaiety
noun
1: a gay feeling [syn: {merriment}]
2: a festive merry feeling [syn: {playfulness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
174 Moby Thesaurus words for "gaiety": Technicolor, animal spirits, animation, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blatancy, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, blitheness, bravery, brazenness, bright color, brightness, brilliance, buoyancy, capersomeness, celebration, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, chiffon, clinquant, cloud nine, color, colorfulness, coltishness, conviviality, crudeness, dash, dazzle, dazzlingness, delectation, delight, ecstasy, ecstatics, elan, elation, enchantment, entertainment, esprit, exaltation, exhilaration, extravagance, extravaganza, extravagation, exuberance, exultation, felicity, festivity, festoons, finery, flagrancy, flamboyance, flashiness, folderol, foofaraw, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, friskiness, frolicsomeness, froufrou, fuss, gamesomeness, garishness, gaudery, gaudiness, gayness, geniality, gilding, gilt, gingerbread, gladness, glare, glee, glitter, good cheer, good spirits, gorgeousness, gusto, happiness, heartiness, heaven, high spirits, hilarity, holiday-making, hoopla, intensity, intoxication, jauntiness, jazziness, joie de vivre, jollification, jollity, joviality, joy, joyance, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, larking, life, liveliness, loudness, luridness, mafficking, meretriciousness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, mirthfulness, obtrusiveness, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, panache, paradise, paste, pinchbeck, piss and vinegar, playfulness, pleasantness, pleasure, pure color, racketing, radiance, rapture, ravishment, rejoicing, revel, reveling, revelment, revelry, revels, richness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, saturation, sensationalism, seventh heaven, shamelessness, showiness, skittishness, skylarking, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiness, sportiveness, sprightliness, sunshine, superfluity, tawdriness, tinsel, transport, trappings, trickery, trumpery, unalloyed happiness, verve, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, vividness, vulgarness, whoopee, winsomeness, zest, zestfulness, zip
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