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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
They are rollicking riots of rib-tickling jocularity, side-splitting expeditions into the ironic arts.
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2021
“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
Krupp received the jocularities with the enigmatic good-fellow air with which he received everything.
From The Price of Love by Bennett, Arnold
These jocularities are interesting otherwise than politically; thin and weakly as they are, they inaugurated the style of later political caricature.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
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
Ireland has been prolific in delineators of her suffering and crimes, jocularities and bulls, both in poetry and prose.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
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