jocosity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality or practice of merry joking

   His jocosity kept the discussion lively without turning it cruel.

2. 2
   noun

   a joke or jocular remark

   The speaker's final jocosity drew a restrained laugh.

From jocose + -ity. Jocose comes from Latin iocosus, "full of joking," from iocus, "joke or play."

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