Jocularity is cheerful joking humour. Forced jocularity, an air of jocularity.
The word is often faintly disapproving, since it suggests jokes made on purpose. Jocularity at a serious moment is the thing people most often get wrong.
1nounjocularityCheerful joking humour.
“His jocularity in the waiting room helped nobody.”
jocularity is a humour.
Proto-Indo-European
*yek-
Latin
iocularis
English
jocular
English, today
jocularity
Built from
From jocular + -ity. jocular comes from Latin iocularis, from ioculus (“a little jest”), diminutive of iocus (“a jest”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA