jocundityn.
/dʒə(ʊ)ˈkʌndᵻti/, /dʒɒˈkʌndᵻti/, U.S. /dʒoʊˈkəndədi/, /dʒɑˈkəndədi/ 1.
a. Jocund quality or condition; mirthfulness, gaiety; mirth, merriment, glee.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [noun] > quality or condition of being merry
merrinesseOE
jollitya1350
jollinessc1386
jocundityc1420
festivity1583
buxomness1598
joviality1626
mirthsomenessa1645
jocosity1646
allegresse1652
jovialness1658
mirthfulness1749
festiveness1777
zizz1920
gleefulness1934
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 1121 Vngreyned grape in high iocundite Me may suppe of.
?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Fiii But mengle so in mesure, myrth and iocundyte.
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 47 Iudas..With Thamar lay in his Iocunditie.
1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. John ii. 9 Marriages among the Jews were celebrated with great Feasting, where moderate jocundity was thought seasonable.
1764 ‘G. Psalmanazar’ Memoirs 160 I have seen many of them go up to the gallows..with a seeming jocundity, as if they were mounting the guard.
1882 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool (1883) i. xviii He overflowed with jocundity, though he was neither a wit nor a humourist.
b. A merry act or saying; a pleasantry.
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
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §27 43 The more Liberties he [Shaftsbury] took in the way of Pleasures and Jocundities..the more acceptable he was to the King.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun]
blissc1175
Edena1225
heaven bliss?c1225
joyc1275
blessedheada1300
blissfulheada1340
third heavenc1384
paradisec1395
benisona1400
blessednessa1400
heavena1413
jocundnessc1426
everlastingness1434
jocundityc1450
beatitudea1492
beatification1502
blessedfulness1526
beautitude1578
Elysiuma1616
suavitya1617
seventh heaven1786
heaven of heavens1885
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. lii. 124 Noon anxiete, blisful iocundite, swete companye & plesant to beholde.
1492 J. Ryman Poems lxxxii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1892) 89 251 In blisse with me thy place shall be Replete with alle iocundite.
1628 J. Hume Jewes Deliv. v. 76 He is joy and jocunditie to such as mourne.
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