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Jocundity

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The state of being jocund.

n. A jocund remark; a witticism.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The state or quality of being jocund; gayety; sportiveness.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state of being jocund or merry; gaiety.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a feeling facetious merriment

Word Usage

"By no means undignified, the face presented that combination of slyness and jocundity which we are accustomed to imagine of the canonical jolly-dogs in mediaeval tales."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

gaiety merriment

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

gayety sportiveness

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