jocularity

  • 111ludicrousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality of being laughable or comical: comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, farcicality, funniness, humor, humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, ridiculousness, wit, wittiness, zamness.… …

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  • 112merriness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A state of joyful exuberance: blitheness, blithesomeness, gaiety, glee, gleefulness, hilarity, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth,… …

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  • 113mirthfulness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A state of joyful exuberance: blitheness, blithesomeness, gaiety, glee, gleefulness, hilarity, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, merriness, mirth.… …

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  • 114ridiculousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality of being laughable or comical: comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, farcicality, funniness, humor, humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, ludi crousness, wit, wittiness, zaniness.… …

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  • 115wittiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality of beirig laughable or comical: comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, farcicality, funniness, humor, humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, ludi crousness, ridiculousness, wit,… …

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  • 116zaniness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The quality of being laughable or comical: comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, farcicality, funniness, humor, humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, ludi crousness, ridiculousness, wit,… …

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  • 117jocular — joc|u|lar [ˈdʒɔkjulə US ˈdʒa:kjulər] adj formal [Date: 1600 1700; : Latin; Origin: jocularis, from jocus; JOKE1] joking or humorous ▪ He sounded in a jocular mood. >jocularly adv >jocularity [ˌdʒɔkjuˈlærıti US ˌdʒa: ] n [U] …

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  • 118Jeanne des Anges — (1602–1665)    Mother superior of the Ursuline convent in Poitiers, France, who became possessed with major DEMONs in the famous LOUDUN POSSESSIONS case. A mean and vindictive woman, Jeanne des Anges (Joan of the Angels) became the principal… …

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  • 119do one's fruit — vb British to become enraged, lose control. A var iant of the colloquial version do one s nut , punning on the fruit and nut choc olate bar, this item of middle class, middle aged jocularity was recorded in the early 1990s. ► When they finally… …

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  • 120harry-starkers — adj British naked. An upper class or armed serv ices jocularity …

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