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

He retains hold of my arm, and as he talks his spine straightens imperceptibly, his chest expands, his voice assumes more and more the sprightliness and jocularity of youth.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

Normanby, still smarting from the attacks of Brougham, was made the mark for these jocularities, after his health being drunk thus: ‘Lord Normanby and the liberation of the Prisoners.’

From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Charles Greville

Charnock perhaps was not at that moment in a mood for jocularities.

From Miranda of the Balcony A Story by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodle) Mason

It seems, from some jocularities attributed to his lordship, that he adds to his many other claims to distinction that of being a man of wit.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

Under such circumstances men at times give vent to jocularities which sound coarse and shocking.

From A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham