Definitions
Etymologies
- jocular + -ity (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Like Bush, his jocularity is a thin veil over a white hot temper, easily engaged when his will or knowledge is questioned.”
McCain: I Can Demagogue About Iran Because Public Is Ignorant
“Among a giddy and light-minded people, they have appropriated to themselves the post of honour of pedantry: they confound the levity of jocularity, which is quite compatible with profundity in art, with the levity of shallowness, which (as a natural gift or natural defect,) is so frequent among their countrymen.”
“I can't help but think they thought they were being funny or clever alas they missed the mark but look at what such "jocularity" inspires in others!”
“But it did seem to me at a time when there's some very sober news around the world, especially in the Middle East, this kind of jocularity and sort of towel snapping with reporters did seem odd.”
“Over the barton-gate the dairyman saw them, and came forward, throwing into his face the kind of jocularity deemed appropriate in Talbothays and its vicinity on the re-appearance of the newly-married.”
“(There is an ogreish kind of jocularity in Grandfather Smallweed to-day.) "And you can refuse, you mean, eh?”
“(There is an ogreish kind of jocularity in Grandfather”
“Enough jocularity, or what passes for it from a Wall Street Journal scrivener.”
The Wall Street Journal: Waking Up to Greece's Default Position
“Thin reasoning perhaps, but the bassoon and double bass duet in the "Menuet" has an earthy Balkan jocularity and the whole work is vigorously charming.”
The Huffington Post: Brad Hill: Salonen Brings Hungarian Echoes to the NY Philharmonic
“The games, developed over an age, had become the only safe means by which to train the keepers - in space, and out from under the watchful eye of the Dominion, who kept jocularity at bay and had long ago stricken such verboten vocabulary from the language.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jocularity’.
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Happy, happy, joy, joy.
Feel good words.
great pleasure, joyfulness, jubilation, triumph, exultation, rejoicing, happiness, gladness, exhilaration, exuberance, bliss, felicity and 95 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Keeping Secrets
Words of 10 letters, all different, can be used for encrypting, pretty securely, such things as PINs and passwords. The fly in the ointment, for me, in keeping track of them is I've got to write '...
lumberjack, birthplace, whiskeybar, vanquished, metaphysic, precaution, quizmaster, dumbwaiter, thumbscrew, blacksmith, wholegrain, wanderlust and 105 more...
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vmarinelli's Words
canard, gumption, inexorable, insouciance, inviolable, mordant, euphonious, sawbuck, carpe diem, pay dirt, adipocere, profligate and 496 more...
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play words
words for a play
pert, vicissitude, melancholy, vexation, gaud, attestation, renunciation, wax, wrought, sunder, antipodes, reckoning and 236 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
lurid, limned, concordance, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
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let the wild rumpus start!
mischief of one kind...and another
tom foolery, caper, frolic, lark, rumpus, mischief, shenanigan, escapade, gambol, monkeyshine, revel, skylarking and 28 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, J
jaggery, juju, jackanapes, jasper, jazzy, jostle, jaywalk, jerky, jawbone, jersey, jaw, junction and 83 more...
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fancynancykay's list
A plethora of wonderful words
persiflage, plethora, dearth, antithetical, immutable, incorrigible, oxymoron, caustic, jocularity, antithesis, preternatural, genuflect and 18 more...
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themars47
voyeurism, reverie, salacious, incongruity, quid, flamboyant, pro quo, brace, insinuation, cacophony, consortium, pessimism and 33 more...
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Lolita
preambulate, solecism, cognomen, etiolate, platitudinous, apotheosis, jocularity, capricious, expiatory, seraph, alpinist, paleopedology and 88 more...
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Nabokov's Lolita
words I learned during reading Lolita
etiolated, platitudinous, obscene, philistine, qualms, lavish, prude, forego, ineptly, unswervingly, tempest, demented and 38 more...
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