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jocularity|dʒɒkjʊˈlærɪtɪ|
[ad. med.L. joculāritās, f. joculāris: see prec. and -ity.]
The quality of being jocular, mirthfulness; jocular speech or behaviour, jesting, mirth, fun.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xvi. 372 When men could..persist unalterable at all effortes of Jocularity. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 101 ⁋1, I..applied my faculties to jocularity and burlesque. 1881Goldw. Smith Lect. & Ess. 259 The jocularity which was always struggling with melancholy in his mind.
b. with pl. A jocular act or remark, a joke.
1848Dickens Dombey vii, Little jocularities, of which old Joe Bagstock was the perpetual theme. |