(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".
Jocund
Definition:
() Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive.
(adv.) Merrily; cheerfully.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the Sun's marketing site, where they address the people who really matter to them, their corporate partners, they eschew the colloquial jocundity, where stars romp in love-nests and drop tots, here the silvery nomenclature of commerce reigns, the Sun's true tongue.
(2) She's a less jocund Heather Mills dressed for Whitby Goth Weekend, the sort of mate's new girlfriend you'd rather be bummed ragged by a White Walker than let on your pub quiz team.