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Origin of jocularity
Explanation
A state of cheer or good humor is jocularity. It takes a certain amount of jocularity to tell a really good joke. Someone who has the quality of jocularity is playfully funny — a jokester or clown is known for his jocularity. A teacher's jocularity can transform a boring history class into something fun. Jocularity, the adjective jocular, and joke all stem from a common Latin root, iocus, or "joke."
Vocabulary lists containing jocularity
The Scarlet Letter
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His attempts at jocularity had been thoughtless and misguided but not malevolent, his lawyer said, in a submission to the panel.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2023
What kept Mr. Jacomo in that place of honor, far more than his jocularity, was his competence and ability to adjust — profitably — when even the best-laid plans went awry.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2020
“After 87 and a half minutes of jocularity, the movie pivots in that final shot and ends up in a space that I hope people will find surprising,” Soderbergh explained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2019
It’s no surprise, then, that plenty of Gemini Man feels like a slightly musty cable-replay staple, with that 1990s Jerry Bruckheimer military jocularity and a loving reverence for its lead actor’s movie-star face.
From The Verge ● Oct. 16, 2019
Obviously there was to be no jocularity tonight.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Then there was a banquet, at which Teacher Scopes stammered a few embarrassed words and the important lawyers indulged in brilliant jocularities.
From Time Magazine Archive
She would eat only convent fare at first, notwithstanding the importunities of the waiters, and the jocularities of the captain, and particularly of the clerk.
From Balcony Stories by King, Grace E.
Mr. Deacon now felt his little jocularities lost before a wall of the matter of fact.
From Miss Lulu Bett by Gale, Zona
It seems, from some jocularities attributed to his lordship, that he adds to his many other claims to distinction that of being a man of wit.
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James
When the regiment came up, however, they forgot their mortification in the eager questioning and envious jocularities of the rest.
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis)
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