infestivity (uncountable)

1. A lack#Noun|lack of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth.
   • 1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter XV, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, OCLC 1080146765 ↗, book the first (George Somerset), page 231 ↗:

     Her days of infestivity were plainly ended, and her days of gladness were to begin.

   • 1903, Frederic Stewart Isham, Under the Rose, ISBN 9781406853254 (2009 reprint), p. 70 ↗:

     Moreover, Caillette experienced a superior sadness, sifted through years of infestivity and gloom.

   • 1989, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, ISBN 9781559704243 (1998 Arcade edition), p. 256 ↗:

     May Week. . . . As in every year, that infamous week was dragging its boorish heels with remarkable infestivity.