Saturnalia

From Latin SÄturnÄlia, a festival of the winter solstice

Full definition of saturnalia

(plural saturnalias)

A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence; a period of unrestrained revelry.

Sinclair Jungle|26They lodged men and women on the same floor; and with the night there began a saturnalia of debaucheryâ€”scenes such as never before had been witnessed in America.
1922, James Frazer, , ch 14If 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.
1922, Rafael Sabatini, , ch XXVIIIYet 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.
1961, Joseph Heller, , ch 34It 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.
2001, Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys:We advanced into the main hall, already aroar with a saturnalia of sozzled gestures and gibbering.