Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
FESTIVITY
celebration, festivity
(noun) any joyous diversion
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
festivity (countable and uncountable, plural festivities)
(often, pluralized) A festival or similar celebration.
An experience or expression of celebratory feeling, merriment, gaiety.
Antonyms
• (experience or expression of celebratory feeling, merriment): infestivity
Source: Wiktionary
Fes*tiv"i*ty, n.; pl. Festivities. Etym: [L. festivitas: cf. F. festivité.]
1. The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety. The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth. Bp. Hurd.
2. A festival; a festive celebration. Sir T. Browne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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