Other Word Forms
- overjocularity noun
Etymology
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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Big Science
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"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 10
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Example Sentences
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Still, Kimmel seems to relish the juxtaposition of his unpretentious jocularity and the Oscars’ pomp and circumstance.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2024
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
For all its burlesque jocularity, Mr. Scott asserted, his job was no less taxing as a result.
From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2021
They are rollicking riots of rib-tickling jocularity, side-splitting expeditions into the ironic arts.
From Washington Post • May 20, 2021
Raymond Birge, who became department chairman upon Elmer Hall’s passing that same year, was fond of remarking with a wry jocularity, “I don’t know what goes on over there in that Radiation Lab.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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