Other Word Forms
- overjocularity noun
Etymology
Origin of jocularity
Example Sentences
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No smile, no jocularity, no sense that he had just won a major victory.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026
The scene pulses with athletic jocularity, good-spirited fun with an edge of danger.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024
Gleeful, as defined in the dictionary, suggests a sense of merriment, jocularity.
From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2022
For all its burlesque jocularity, Mr. Scott asserted, his job was no less taxing as a result.
From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2021
“Certainly,” he said with a jocularity that I saw as false but was probably convincing for the others.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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