jocularity

noun
/ˌd͡ʒɑkjəˈlɛɹɪti/US

Etymology

From jocular + -ity.

Definitions

  1. Joking, humorous remarks or behaviour.

    • It should seem he had that day been in a humour for jocularity and merriment, and upon such occasions I never knew a man laugh more heartily.
    • […] Cristal Nixon at that moment rode up to them, and said, with an affectation of jocularity which sat very ill upon his sullen features, […]
    • All were armed with pistols, and there was a small armoury of rifles against a wall. “Guns,” I said with fearful jocularity, “in a holy place?”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at jocularity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at jocularity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at jocularity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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