festivity vs merriment

festivity

noun
  • An experience or expression of celebratory feeling, merriment, gaiety. 

  • A festival or similar celebration. 

merriment

noun
  • A state of enjoyable exuberance. 

  • Playful fun. 

How often have the words festivity and merriment occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )