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/ˌsætəˈneɪli.ə/ · noun
A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence; a period of unrestrained revelry..
a man who mounts the Hustings, must not allow himself to be sore-boned, or he invites his opponents to 'touch him on the raw,' not in the exercise of their malice, but their power; an election is a saturnalia."
They lodged men and women on the same floor; and with the night there began a saturnalia of debauchery—scenes such as never before had been witnessed in America.
If at the birth of the Latin kings their fathers were really unknown, the fact points either to a general looseness of life in the royal family or to a special relaxation of moral rules on certain occasions, when men and women reverted for a season to the licence of an earlier age. Such Saturnalias are not uncommon at some stages of social evolution.
Yet if he remained, it would simply mean that his own and Hagthorpe's crews would join in the saturnalia and increase the hideousness of events now inevitable.
It was a raw, violent, guzzling saturnalia that spilled obstreperously through the woods to the officers' club and spread up into the hills toward the hospital and the antiaircraft-gun emplacements.
We advanced into the main hall, already aroar with a saturnalia of sozzled gestures and gibbering.
Use saturnalia when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Saturnalia means A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence; a period of unrestrained revelry..
Common synonyms include debauch, orgy, riot, debauchery.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
a man who mounts the Hustings, must not allow himself to be sore-boned, or he invites his opponents to 'touch him on the raw,' not in the exercise of their malice, but their power; an election is a saturnalia."
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