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
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
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
And there is always the pleasure of hearing aristocrats indulging in their little jocosities, such as.
From Time Magazine Archive
He went as often as he thought he could without attracting the attention of Mr. Shrank or eliciting ponderous jocosities from the other workers.
From In the Control Tower by Will Mohler
