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Drollery vs Jocosity - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between drollery and jocosity

is that drollery is comical quality while jocosity is the state of being jocose.

drollery

English

Noun

(drolleries)
  • Comical quality.
  • * 1915 , :
    • He found that Sally had a restrained, but keen, sense of the ridiculous, and she made remarks about the girls or the men who were set over them which amused him by their unexpected drollery .
  • Amusing behavior.
  • Something humorous, funny or comical.
  • (archaic) a puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.
  • A joke; a funny story.

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    jocosity

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being jocose.
  • (countable) A jocose utterance.