jocularity

The scene pulses with athletic jocularity, good-spirited fun with an edge of danger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

His attempts at jocularity had been thoughtless and misguided but not malevolent, his lawyer said, in a submission to the panel.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2023

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

From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2022

There’s a kind of jocularity and a camaraderie among you, but there’s also a current of tension and rivalry.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2020

Raymond Birge, who became department chairman upon Elmer Hall’s passing that same year, was fond of remarking with a wry jocularity, “I don’t know what goes on over there in that Radiation Lab.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

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

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