Christmas spirit
Holiday season warmth
Christmas spirit is a mood of generosity, warmth, and goodwill associated with the Christmas season.
Someone filled with Christmas spirit gives freely, treats others kindly, and embraces festive traditions: Don't be such a Scrooge—get into the Christmas spirit!
The phrase often appears in appeals to charity or calls to set aside grievances during the holidays.
- holiday cheerSeasonal joyfulness and warmth
- hollySpiny-leaved winter shrub
- generosityReadiness to give freely
- giving backContributing to others' welfare
- ScroogedEighties holiday comedy
warmth · volunteering · joy · present · compassion · charitable · ghosts · midnight mass · empathy · gift-giving · Epiphany · redemption · caroling · unity · nativity · hope · goodwill · good tidings
- seasonal greetingsseason's greetings, happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanzaa, best wishes, peace on earth
- Children's Faithchildren's Bible, Bible stories, bedtime prayers, Noah's Ark, guardian angel
- holiday figuresSanta Claus, Santa, St. Nicholas, Easter Bunny, Frosty
Christmas spiritScrooge
Miserly, cold-hearted person
miserliness · Ebenezer Scrooge · Grinch · the Grinch · stinginess
Christmas spiritbah humbug
Contemptuous holiday dismissal
gloom · joylessness · misery · cynicism · bitterness
Christmas spiritisolation
Complete separation from others
alienation · misanthropy · antisocial behavior · hostility · exclusion