Thesaurus / jocosity
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synonyms for jocosity
- amusement
- badinage
- banter
- buffoonery
- clowning
- comedy
- comicality
- drollery
- facetiousness
- farce
- flippancy
- fun
- funniness
- gag
- gaiety
- happiness
- humorousness
- jest
- jocoseness
- jocularity
- joke
- joyfulness
- levity
- lightness
- playfulness
- pleasantry
- raillery
- ridiculousness
- tomfoolery
- whimsy
- wisecrack
- wit
- witticism
- wittiness
- comicalness
- drollness
- farcicality
- high spirits
- jesting
- joking
- kidding
- ludicrousness
- zaniness
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Innocence and jocosity were two of her leading characteristics; another was a genuine but ingenuous literary faculty.
WITCHING HILLE. W. HORNUNGColonel Waring had evolved the belief that young men could be coaxed out of their natural shyness by well-timed jocosity.
LADY LILITHSTEPHEN MCKENNAHe referred the point to Westover, who knew an inner earnestness in it, in spite of Whitwell's habit of outside jocosity.
THE LANDLORD AT LION'S HEAD, COMPLETEWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLSPaul had better come and defend himself,” he said, still clinging to his jocosity; “I am going to get him.
JUPITER LIGHTSCONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSONLet him amuse the children, relax with jocosity the sternness of adults, and wreathe into smiles the wrinkles of old age.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY , VOLUME 2, NO. 14, DECEMBER 1858VARIOUSAs I am of the experienced elite of society that sups, I must bid you adieu—I promise more jocosity in my next.
LETTERS OF A DAKOTA DIVORCEEJANE BURRA specimen of the jocosity of our exuberant scribes serves as a memento of a wonderful period.
SOUTH AFRICA AND THE TRANSVAAL WAR, VOL. IV (OF 6)LOUIS CRESWICKEThis was a jocosity if not a mockery, but it was the first time I had heard the words in Ireland.
IRELAND AS IT ISROBERT JOHN BUCKLEY (AKA R.J.B.)He would connect the idea of great jocosity with unprincipled designs.
HISTORY OF ENGLISH HUMOUR, VOL. 1 (OF 2)ALFRED GUY KINGAN L'ESTRANGEMuch of this jocosity scarcely deserves the name of humour, and we may remark that in Jonson's time it did not receive it.
HISTORY OF ENGLISH HUMOUR, VOL. 1 (OF 2)ALFRED GUY KINGAN L'ESTRANGEWORDS RELATED TO JOCOSITY
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