[ad. med.L. joculāritās, f. joculāris: see prec. and -ITY.] The quality of being jocular, mirthfulness; jocular speech or behavior, jesting, mirth, fun.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VII. xvi. 372. When men could … persist unalterable at all effortes of Jocularity.
1751. Johnson, Rambler, No. 101, ¶ 1. I … applied my faculties to jocularity and burlesque.
1881. Goldw. Smith, Lect. & Ess., 259. The jocularity which was always struggling with melancholy in his mind.
b. with pl. A jocular act or remark, a joke.
1848. Dickens, Dombey, vii. Little jocularities, of which old Joe Bagstock was the perpetual theme.
