jocoseness
11humor — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. disposition, mood, tem per; caprice, drollery, wit; fun; jest; choler, melancholy, depression, anger; facetiousness. See feeling. v. t. indulge, favor, oblige, gratify. See permission, tendency,… …
12jocularity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. humor; mirth, laughter; jesting, joshing, kidding; wit. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The quality of being laughable or comical: comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, farcicality,… …
13wit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Cleverness Nouns 1. wit, wittiness; Atticism; salt; sense of humor, funny bone, esprit, point, fancy, whim, humor, drollery, pleasantry; comedy; jocularity, jocosity, jocoseness; levity, facetiousness;… …
14jocosity — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. A state of joyful exuberance: blitheness, blithesomeness, gaiety, glee, gleefulness, hilarity, jocoseness, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, mer riness, mirth,… …
15humorousness — noun the trait of merry joking • Syn: ↑jocoseness, ↑jocosity, ↑merriness • Derivationally related forms: ↑humorous, ↑merry (for: ↑merriness), ↑jocose …
16jocosity — noun 1. fun characterized by humor • Syn: ↑jocularity • Derivationally related forms: ↑jocular (for: ↑jocularity), ↑jocose • Hypernyms: ↑fun, ↑ …
17merriness — noun the trait of merry joking • Syn: ↑jocoseness, ↑jocosity, ↑humorousness • Derivationally related forms: ↑humorous (for: ↑humorousness), ↑merry, ↑ …
18jocose — jo*cose (j[ o]*k[=o]s ), a. [L jocosus, fr. jocus joke. See {Joke}.] Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. [1913 Webster] To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an… …
19jocosely — jocose jo*cose (j[ o]*k[=o]s ), a. [L jocosus, fr. jocus joke. See {Joke}.] Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. [1913 Webster] To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an …
20jocosity — jo*cos i*ty (j[ o]*k[o^]s [i^]*t[y^]), n. A jocose act or saying; jocoseness. Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] …
