jocularityn.
/ˌdʒɒkjᵿˈlarᵻti/, U.S. /ˌdʒɑkjəˈlɛrədi/ a. The quality of being jocular, mirthfulness; jocular speech or behaviour, jesting, mirth, fun.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > humour > quality of being humorous
facetiousness1542
sportfulnessa1586
jocularity1646
faceteness1654
humour?1663
pleasantness1685
jocoseness1706
humorousness1727
funniness1836
jokesomeness1880
SOH1980
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xvi. 372 When men could..persist unalterable at all effortes of Jocularity . View more context for this quotation
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 101. ⁋1 I..applied my faculties to jocularity and burlesque.
1881 G. Smith Lect. & Ess. 259 The jocularity which was always struggling with melancholy in his mind.
b. with plural. A jocular act or remark, a joke.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > a jest or joke
gameOE
jape1377
bourda1387
mirthc1390
mowa1393
chapec1400
skauncec1440
sport?1449
popc1540
flirt1549
jest1551
merriment1576
shifta1577
facetiae1577
gig1590
pleasantry1594
lepidity1647
rallery1653
drollery1654
wit-crack1662
joco1663
pleasance1668
joke1670
jocunditya1734
quizzification1801
funniment1826
side-splitter1834
funniness1838
quizzery1841
jocularity1846
rib-tickler1855
jocosity1859
humorism1860
gag1863
gas1914
nifty1918
mirthquaker1921
rib1929
boffo1934
giggle1936
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) vii. 62 Little jocularities, of which old Joe Bagstock..was the perpetual theme.
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