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Definition: Jocundity |
JocundityNoun1. 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: JocunditySynonym: jocularity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Jocundity |
| English words defined with "jocundity": Jucundity. (references) |
| 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. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Jocundity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jacundity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| 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) |
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. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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