Jocularity
[,dʒɔkju'lærəti]
Definition
(n.) Jesting; merriment.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Jocoseness, facetiousness, waggishness, waggery, drollery, sportiveness, merriment, pleasantry, mirth, fun.
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Examples
- I was quite unprepared for the rapid manner in which Mrs. Guppy's power of jocularity merged into a power of taking the profoundest offence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Miss Corby's role was jocularity: she always entered the conversation with a handspring. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Front-de-Boeuf, on the contrary, seemed impatient of their ill-timed jocularity. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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