joviality

[ joh-vee-al-i-tee ]
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noun
  1. the state or quality of being jovial; merriment; jollity.

Origin of joviality

1
First recorded in 1620–30; jovial + -ity; compare French jovialité

synonym study For joviality

See mirth.

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How to use joviality in a sentence

  • Vital is a man between thirty and forty years of age, with a natural joviality now repressed by ambitious ideas.

    Unconscious Comedians | Honore de Balzac
  • To the ancients “holidays” were joy-days, pandemoniums, and the pre-eminent emblem of joviality was the holly tree.

    Archaic England | Harold Bayley
  • I found him in, and as soon as he learnt my name, he offered me whisky and soda and a cigar with most unparsonical joviality.