revelry vs bacchanalia

bacchanalia vs revelry

revelry and bacchanalia both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
revelry	Yes	No	No	No
bacchanalia	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bacchanalia is a hyponym of revelry; that is, bacchanalia is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than revelry:

revelry: unrestrained merrymaking
bacchanalia: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

Other hyponyms of revelry include binge, bout, bust, tear, bender, booze-up, carousal, carouse, toot, bacchanal, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia, whoopee.

revelry (noun)	bacchanalia (noun)
unrestrained merrymaking	a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

Difference between revelry and bacchanalia

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