jocosity

Like most of the BBC's new breed, he is always on message, and avuncular to a fault, addicted to unnecessary jocosity – what we doctors call John Inverdale syndrome.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2012

Catholic is likely to get into, and they do it with frankness and not a little abrasive jocosity of their own.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite the period jocosity, Sam's spats of spite, the bad blood over bad debts, and all too many last words with forgotten men who wronged him, Mark Twain's mastery remains.

From Time Magazine Archive

The superficial, no doubt, will mistake this little book for a somewhat laborious attempt at jocosity.

From The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind by Nathan, George Jean

This arrangement, instead of giving me some freedom, shackled me to the reporter, who dashed from celebrity to celebrity, grass to nuclei, office to point of momentary interest, with unflagging energy and infuriating jocosity.

From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward

“For these readers, it appeared, all took my idle jocosities with complete seriousness. . . . Pretty soon,” Mencken later wrote, “I began to encounter my preposterous ‘facts’ in the writings of other men. . . .

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2017

The play's emotional power derives from its harassed outcries and silences, from very human bafflements and needs, from a truly serious man's intensities and jocosities alike.

From Time Magazine Archive

And there is always the pleasure of hearing aristocrats indulging in their little jocosities, such as.

From Time Magazine Archive

English translations, however, accompany the more salacious jocosities, and these invariably emasculate whatever finesse there may have been in the original.

From Time Magazine Archive

She listened graciously to his jocosities, stealing a glance at Harry when his father called him "a good boy."

From Frivolous Cupid by Hope, Anthony