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.

Noun

(-)

the state of being sportive

*{{quote-book, year=1890, author=Theo. Stephenson Browne, title=In the Riding-School; Chats With Esmeralda, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=You will see the tame horse in the paddock gallop about for his pleasure, and the wild horse on the prairie will start and run for miles in mere sportiveness . }}

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=David Garnett, title=Lady Into Fox, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Then he would play with his vixen, she encouraging him with her pretty sportiveness . }}

*{{quote-book, year=1907, author=Edited by Rev. James Wood, title=The Nuttall Encyclopaedia, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=OMAR KHAYYAM, astronomer-poet of Persia, born at Naishapur, in Khorassan; lived in the later half of the 11th century, and died in the first quarter of the 12th; wrote a collection of poems which breathe an Epicurean spirit, and while they occupy themselves with serious problems of life, do so with careless sportiveness , intent he on the enjoyment of the sensuous pleasures of life, like an easy-going Epicurean. }}