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Drollery vs Jocularity - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between drollery and jocularity

is that drollery is comical quality while jocularity is joking, humorous remarks or behaviour.

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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    jocularity

    English

    Noun

    (jocularities)
  • Joking, humorous remarks or behaviour.
  • * 1791 , , The Life of Samuel Johnson :
    • 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.