solemnities
Grave ceremonial occasions
Solemnities is the plural of solemnity—formal ceremonies or rites conducted with gravity and dignity: the solemnities of a state funeral, religious solemnities.
The word can also refer to the quality of being solemn: the solemnities of the occasion demanded respectful silence.
In Catholic canon law, solemnities are the highest-ranking feast days.
Formal beginning ceremony
- coronationCeremony installing a sovereign
- investitureCeremony conferring rank
- ordinationClergy appointment ceremony
- consecrationDedicating to sacred purpose
enthronement · installation · commencement · convocation · dedication · procession · pageantry · observance
Formal worship structure
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- communionProfound shared closeness
- consecrationDedicating to sacred purpose
- benedictionFormal spoken blessing
Mass · vespers · ordination · baptism · confirmation · Eucharist · anointing · holy orders
inauguration
Formal beginning ceremony
- coronationCeremony installing a sovereign
- investitureCeremony conferring rank
- ordinationClergy appointment ceremony
consecration · enthronement · installation · commencement · convocation · dedication · procession · pageantry · observance · memorial
liturgy
Formal worship structure
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- communionProfound shared closeness
- consecrationDedicating to sacred purpose
benediction · Mass · vespers · ordination · baptism · confirmation · Eucharist · anointing · holy orders · matrimony
reverence
Profound admiring respect
sanctity · sacredness · piety · devotion · veneration · respect · honor · majesty · grandeur · sublimity
mourning
Period following loss
bereavement · funeral · burial · wake · dirge · requiem · cortege · pallbearer · hearse · vigil
- Catholic liturgyMass, missal, lectionary, liturgical year, rubrics
- church calendarAdvent, Easter Sunday, Lent, Christmas, Pentecost
- church feastsfeast day, holy day, All Saints Day, All Souls Day, Christmas Day
- holy daysEaster Sunday, holy day, Easter Week, Christmas Eve, sabbath day
- liturgical calendarchurch year, Advent, Lent, Holy Week, Easter
- liturgyDivine Office, missal, lectionary, rite, Tridentine Mass
solemnitieslevities
Plural of lightheartedness
frivolities · flippancies · gaieties · jocularity · merriment
solemnitiesinformalities
Unofficial, relaxed behaviors
casualness · hangouts · shindigs · hootenannies · romps
solemnitiesfrivolities
Unimportant amusing pursuits
levities · flippancies · gaieties · merriments · jollities
solemn, solemnly, solemnity, solemnize, solemnized, solemness, solemnizing, solemnizes