jocularity

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

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

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

“After 87 and a half minutes of jocularity, the movie pivots in that final shot and ends up in a space that I hope people will find surprising,” Soderbergh explained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2019

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

Ireland has been prolific in delineators of her suffering and crimes, jocularities and bulls, both in poetry and prose.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton

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

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