What's the difference between jocose and jocosity?

Jocose


Definition:

  • (a.) Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jocosity dates, and quickly becomes boring: chunks of the middle of Ulysses could go."
  • (2) Bron barely saw his father until he was five, and even thereafter Evelyn boasted with chilling jocosity that he saw his children "once a day for 10, I hope awe-inspiring, minutes".

Jocosity


Definition:

  • (n.) A jocose act or saying; jocoseness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jocosity dates, and quickly becomes boring: chunks of the middle of Ulysses could go."
  • (2) Bron barely saw his father until he was five, and even thereafter Evelyn boasted with chilling jocosity that he saw his children "once a day for 10, I hope awe-inspiring, minutes".

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