jocularity

[ jok-yuh-lar-i-tee ]

/ ˌdʒɒk yəˈlær ɪ ti /

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noun, plural joc·u·lar·i·ties.

the state or quality of being jocular.

jocular speech or behavior.

a jocular remark or act.

Origin of jocularity

First recorded in 1640–50; jocular + -ity

OTHER WORDS FROM jocularity

o·ver·joc·u·lar·i·ty, noun

Words nearby jocularity

jockstrap, jockteleg, jocose, jocosity, jocular, jocularity, jocund, jocundity, Jod-Basedow phenomenon, jodhpur, Jodhpuri

Example sentences from the Web for jocularity

In a morning filled with brotherly love and jocularity over how everyone was getting along so well, no one wanted to offend.
At American Enterprise Institute, NeoCons Say ‘Hello, Dalai’|Eleanor Clift|February 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She could see, under his jocularity, his pride and pleasure in her (as he considered) audacity.
The Locusts' Years|Mary Helen Fee
Felix received all this with good humor, and replied only in a strain of jocularity to every thing she said.
Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day|William Carleton
Some years later he said that 'when Burke lets himself down to jocularity he is in the kennel.'
Life Of Johnson, Volume 5|Boswell

"Don't let it distress you," he said, with an attempt at jocularity.
Afterwards|Kathlyn Rhodes
To him I called with an assumption of jocularity I did not feel, "Stranger, where are you bound for?"
The Trail of the Goldseekers|Hamlin Garland