joviality

The last time I saw him, in the spring of 2012, he rose from his desk with a surprising joviality and gave me a warm welcome.
Iraqi Insurgents Circulate the Lie That They Killed the Judge in Saddam’s Trial|Michael Newton|June 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Mr Harbord was an old Harrovian famed for his joviality, and his suicide shocked his friends and family.
Harry Will Not Attend Memorial For His Ex Astrid's Tragic Father|Tom Sykes|June 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The party, said one guest, definitely had an air of forced joviality.
I Survived Hurricane Bernie|Annette Tapert|December 17, 2008|DAILY BEAST
Long Jack was a prominent, but despite his joviality, it seems to me a pathetic figure.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow

His snowy shirt front gave air of almost reckless joviality to desolate Treasury Bench.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, April 6, 1895|Various
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.
Love Among the Lions|F. Anstey

Origin of joviality