lovefest

noun

love·​fest ˈləv-ˌfest 

: love feast sense 2

broadly : an expression or exchange of goodwill, praise, or affection

Examples of lovefest in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The star’s How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Bride Wars, and Something Borrowed, among others, are now considered enduring cult classics, but their initial reception was far from a lovefest. —Jessica Wang, EW.com, 26 Feb. 2025

Fellow senators gave Marco Rubio a lovefest in hearings about his appointment as secretary of state. —Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Jan. 2025

Yet nothing could have prepared me for the lovefest that is attending a Coldplay show — each millisecond calibrated for maximum explosions of communal joy. —Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2024

Unlike the formal next stop at Carnegie Hall, where every move Dudamel — as the incoming music director of the New York Philharmonic — makes is scrutinized, this Disney performance was an outright lovefest and, more important, a people-fest. —Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above