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MERRIMENT
fun, merriment, playfulness
(noun) activities that are enjoyable or amusing; “I do it for the fun of it”; “he is fun to have around”
gaiety, merriment
(noun) a gay feeling
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
merriment (countable and uncountable, plural merriments)
a state of enjoyable exuberance
playful fun
Source: Wiktionary
Mer"ri*ment, n.
Definition: Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic. "Follies and light merriment." Spenser. Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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