jocosity
noun
the state or quality of being jocose.
jocosities
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pluralof jocosity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“For these readers, it appeared, all took my idle jocosities with complete seriousness. . . . Pretty soon,” Mencken later wrote, “I began to encounter my preposterous ‘facts’ in the writings of other men. . . .
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2017
English translations, however, accompany the more salacious jocosities, and these invariably emasculate whatever finesse there may have been in the original.
From Time Magazine Archive
The play's emotional power derives from its harassed outcries and silences, from very human bafflements and needs, from a truly serious man's intensities and jocosities alike.
From Time Magazine Archive
And there is always the pleasure of hearing aristocrats indulging in their little jocosities, such as.
From Time Magazine Archive
She listened graciously to his jocosities, stealing a glance at Harry when his father called him "a good boy."
From Frivolous Cupid by Anthony Hope
