jocosity

[joh-kos-i-tee, juh-]

noun

plural

jocosities 

1. the state or quality of being jocose.

2. joking or jesting.

3. a joke or jest.

Word History and Origins

Origin of jocosity¹

First recorded in 1640–50; jocose + -ity

Example Sentences

Polished, tough-talking, she’s comfortable on her own in a world of male doctors; as she points out with brittle jocosity, most of the other women who attend medical conventions are sex workers.

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Matt Orduña plays two gentlemen, included largely as plot devices, with amusingly clueless jocosity.

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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. . . .

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Like most of the BBC's new breed, he is always on message, and avuncular to a fault, addicted to unnecessary jocosity – what we doctors call John Inverdale syndrome.

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This ostentatious jocosity is not to his liking.

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