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Jocundity

Definition: Jocundity

Jocundity

Noun

1. A feeling facetious merriment.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Jocundity \Jo*cun"di*ty\, noun. [Latin expression jocunditas jucunditas. See Jocund, and compare to Jucundity.]. (references)

 

Synonym: Jocundity

Synonym: jocularity (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Jocundity

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Cheerfulness

Liveliness; Adjective: life, alacrity, vivacity, animation, allegresse; jocundity, joviality, jollity; levity; jocularity; (wit).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Jocundity

English words defined with "jocundity": Jucundity. (references)

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Modern Translation: Jocundity

Language Translations for "jocundity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kënaqësi (amenity, content, delectation, delight, enjoyment, feast, fun, gladness, gratification, kick, pleasure, relish, satisfaction, treat), gaz (cheer, cheerfulness, exhilaration, fluid, fume, gaiety, gas, glee, jamboree, jocularity, jollity, joviality, joy, liveliness, merriment, merriness, mirth, rattle, rollick, sunshine, tittup, waggery). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

радост (delight, enjoyment, gladness, glee, joy, jubilance, mirth, rejoicing, sunshine), веселост (boisterousness, conviviality, gaiety, gladness, hilarity, jollity, joviality, pleasantness, pleasantry, sparkle, sprightliness), приятност (amenity, pleasantness, sapidity). (various references)

   

Czech

  

veselost (gaiety, glee, hilarity, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriness, pleasantry). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

شوخ طبعی (Prank). (various references)

   

German

  

Lustigkeit (funniness, gaiety, jocularity, jolliness, joviality, merriness, playfulness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φαιδρότησ (jovialness, merriment), φαιδρότητα (airiness, cheerfulness, hilarity, jovialness, merriment), ευδιαθεσία. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vidámság (alacrity, animation, bonhomie, cheerfulness, chirpiness, exhilaration, festivity, frolic, gaiety, gayness, glee, happiness, hilarity, jauntiness, jocularity, jollity, joviality, joy, light-heartedness, marry-making, merriment, merriness, mirth, pleasantry, rejoicings, serenity). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ocundityjay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

jucundidade, alegria (bliss, cheer, conviviality, delight, enjoyment, exhilaration, exultancy, felicity, frolic, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, hilarity, jocularity, jollity, joviality, joy, joyfulness, jubilance, jubilation, light-heartedness, merriment, mirth, pleasure, rejoicing, sunshine, vivacity, whoopee), agrado (blandishment, endearment, pleasure). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

voioşie (amenity, cheerfulness, glee, jauntiness, jollification, jollity, joy, mirth), veselie (animation, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, conviviality, exultation, feast, festival, festivity, fiskiness, fling, gaiety, gale, geniality, gladness, great spirits, high spirits, hilarity, jamboree, jauntiness, jocoseness, jollification, jollity, joviality, joy, jubilation, merriment, merriness, merry making, mirth, rejoicing, rejoicings). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

веселость (conviviality, exhilaration, gaiety, hilarity, jocularity, joviality, liveliness, pizzazz). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

jocundidad. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

munterhet (cheer, exhilaration, gaiety, glee, hilarity, jocosity, jollity, joyfulness, merriment, merriness, mirth, risibility). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ความร่าเริง (frolic, lightness). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

neşelilik (bonhomie, cheerfulness, cheeriness, jocularity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joyfulness, lightness, perkiness), neşe (brightness, buoyancy, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, esprit, exhilaration, frolic, gaiety, glee, hilarity, humor, humour, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, merriment, mirth, pleasantry, raciness, rejoicing, spirit, sprightliness, sunshine, vivacity). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

житт"радісність (animal spirits, buoyancy), при"мність (amenity, cosiness, pleasantness, prettiness). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tâm trạng vui vẻ, tâm trạng vui tươi sự vui tính. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Jocundity

Misspellings

"Jocundity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jacundity. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Jocundity"

Words rhyming with "jocundity" (pronounced 'Jo*cun"di*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Jocundity

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-i-j-n-o-t-u-y"

-2 letters: conduit, noctuid.

-3 letters: county, induct, jocund, jouncy, nudity, untidy.

-4 letters: count, cutin, cyton, dicot, dicty, donut, joint, juicy, junco, junto, ontic, tondi, tonic, tunic, uncoy, unity, yonic.

-5 letters: cion, city, coin, coni, cony, dint, djin, doit, doty, duci, duct, duit, dunt, duty, icon, into, join, judo, nodi, odic, otic, tidy, tiny, tody, tony, tyin.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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