All jocosity synonyms
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J j noun jocosity
- humor β hacker humour
- amusement β Amusement is the feeling that you have when you think that something is funny or amusing.
- badinage β Badinage is humorous or light-hearted conversation that often involves teasing someone.
- banter β Banter is teasing or joking talk that is amusing and friendly.
- buffoonery β Buffoonery is foolish behaviour that makes you laugh.
- clowning β clownish behaviour
- comedy β Comedy consists of types of entertainment, such as plays and films, or particular scenes in them, that are intended to make people laugh.
- comicality β the quality of being comical
- drollery β something whimsically amusing or funny.
- facetiousness β (uncountable) The state of being facetious.
- farce β a light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character.
- flippancy β frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- fun β something that provides mirth or amusement: A picnic would be fun.
- funniness β providing fun; causing amusement or laughter; amusing; comical: a funny remark; a funny person.
- gag β to introduce usually comic interpolations into (a script, an actor's part, or the like) (usually followed by up).
- gaiety β the state of being joyous, vivacious, or cheerful.
- happiness β the quality or state of being happy.
- humorousness β (uncountable) The state or quality of being humorous.
- jest β a joke or witty remark; witticism.
- jocoseness β The state of being jocose.
- jocularity β the state or quality of being jocular.
- joke β something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- joyfulness β full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.
- levity β lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness.
- lightness β the state or quality of being light or illuminated.
- playfulness β full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
- pleasantry β good-humored teasing; banter.
- raillery β good-humored ridicule; banter.
- ridiculousness β causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable: a ridiculous plan.
- tomfoolery β foolish or silly behavior; tomfoolishness.
- whimsy β capricious humor or disposition; extravagant, fanciful, or excessively playful expression: a play with lots of whimsy.
- wisecrack β a smart or facetious remark.
- wit β the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
- witticism β a witty remark or sentence.
- wittiness β possessing wit in speech or writing; amusingly clever in perception and expression: a witty writer.
- comicalness β The state or quality of being comical.
- drollness β The quality of being odd or comical.
- farcicality β pertaining to or of the nature of farce.
- high spirits β lively or boisterous mood
- jesting β a joke or witty remark; witticism.
- joking β something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- kidding β Informal. a child or young person.
- ludicrous β causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- zaniness β ludicrously or whimsically comical; clownish.