The state of being happy or merry.
There was much gaiety at the ball.
Merrymaking or festivity.
And he would tell her all sorts of wonders, old-world gaieties, long before she was born; and how finely the great Mr. [George Frideric] Handel played upon the harpischord^([sic]) in the Music Hall, and how his talk was in German, Latin, French, English, Italian, and half-a-dozen languages beside, […]
Borrowed from Middle French gaieté, from gai. By surface analysis, gay + -ety.
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