jocularity

No smile, no jocularity, no sense that he had just won a major victory.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

Still, Kimmel seems to relish the juxtaposition of his unpretentious jocularity and the Oscars’ pomp and circumstance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

Gleeful, as defined in the dictionary, suggests a sense of merriment, jocularity.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2022

“Miz Martha Washington” bears the signature of Ijames’s clever wit: He writes the slaves as more than docile stereotypes; these slaves have personality to spare, and they joke and sing with a threatening jocularity.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2021

And then again, there was something painfully familiar in the menace and male jocularity of that tape.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Then there was a banquet, at which Teacher Scopes stammered a few embarrassed words and the important lawyers indulged in brilliant jocularities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Krupp received the jocularities with the enigmatic good-fellow air with which he received everything.

From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett

These jocularities are interesting otherwise than politically; thin and weakly as they are, they inaugurated the style of later political caricature.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various

Ballad: The Played-Out Humorist Quixotic is his enterprise, and hopeless his adventure is, Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said.

From Songs of a Savoyard by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert

He jibed at him as a vulgar impostor; but it is easy to perceive, under his scornful jocularities, the traces of an uneasy respect.

From Eminent Victorians by Giles Lytton Strachey