Difference between Merriment and Gaiety

MERRIMENT vs GAIETY: NOUN

A gay feeling
High-spirited fun and enjoyment; hilarity.
The state of being merry or frolicsome; hilarious enjoyment; jollity: as, boisterous merriment.
The act of making merry; mirthful entertainment; frolic.
A short comedy or play.
Synonyms See jolly.
Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic.
A state of enjoyable exuberance
Playful fun
Activities that are enjoyable or amusing

A gay feeling
A state of joyful exuberance or merriment; vivacity.
Merry or joyful activity; festivity.
Bright color or showiness, as of dress; finery.
The state of being gay; cheerful animation; mirthfulness.
Action or acts prompted by or inspiring merry delight; a pleasure: commonly in the plural: as, the gaieties of the season.
Finery; showiness: as, gaiety of dress.
Synonyms Life, Liveliness, etc. (see animation); cheerfulness. joyousness, blitheness. glee, jollity.
Same as gayety.
The state of being happy.
A festive merry feeling

Laughter, Joyousness, Joviality, Festivity, Frivolity, Hilarity, Merrymaking, Revelry, Jubilation, Glee, Jollity, Mirth, Fun, Playfulness, Gaiety

Joyfulness, Exuberance, Bonhomie, Liveliness, Merrymaking, Revelry, Frivolity, Mirth, Festivity, Joyousness, Joviality, Jollity, Cheerfulness, Playfulness, Merriment

Jollification, Laughter, Joyousness, Festivity, Frivolity, Hilarity, Merrymaking, Revelry, Jubilation, Glee, Jollity, Mirth, Fun, Playfulness, Gaiety

Hilarity, Joie de vivre, Solemnity, Vivacity, Exuberance, Liveliness, Merrymaking, Revelry, Frivolity, Mirth, Festivity, Joyousness, Jollity, Playfulness, Merriment

It provided merriment in bars and clubs across the country.
Tis the season for shopping, merriment, and packed parking lots.
Miramont Country Club for some figgy pudding and merriment!
Entertainment, short snappy speeches, silent auction, merriment and frivolity.
This provoked illconcealed merriment among many people in Washington.
Music and merriment echo through town as everyone celebrates.
Eliza, at which there was much merriment and music.
Jharkhand there was little merriment, but much hope.
It was followed by a gurgle of merriment.
King Henry and his Queen Anne as they proclaimed the village open for the enterprise of merriment, and merriment alone.

Frank O'Connor competition time - win tickets to The Gaiety Theatre.
If he ever wins over me, it will be with gaiety.
There is the utmost freedom and even gaiety, but without disorder.
May your big day be full of glee and gaiety.
Eleanor, seeking, by factitious gaiety, to dissemble her true feeling.
Type in model simulink horn plenty offers ayr gaiety theatre.
Gaiety and zest marked the Teej celebrations in school.
Opposite above: Chatterbox says gaiety with tailored elegance.
To some Christmas is about mirth and gaiety.
It indicates courageous gaiety as the only victory, and ironical submission to what even gaiety cannot alter as the only wisdom.