Definition of Jolliness

1. Noun. Feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor.

Exact synonyms: Jollity, Joviality
Generic synonyms: Gaiety, Merriment, Amiability, Good Humor, Good Humour, Good Temper
Derivative terms: Jolly, Jolly, Jovial

Definition of Jolliness

1. n. Jollity; noisy mirth.

Definition of Jolliness

1. Noun. Jollity; noisy mirth ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jolliness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Jolliness

jolleys
jollied
jollier
jolliers
jollies
jolliest
jolliffeite
jollification
jollifications
jollified
jollifies
jollify
jollifying
jollily
jolliment
jolliness (current term)
jollinesses
jolling
jollities
jollity
jollof rice
jollop
jollops
jolls
jolly
jolly-hockey-sticks
jolly along
jolly boat
jolly boats
jolly someone along

Literary usage of Jolliness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mrs. Raford, Humanist: A Suffrage Drama by Leando Brown (1912)
"JEAN, much concerned, trying to appear light-hearted to little DICK; gives a touch of jolliness whenever possible. MRS. RAFORD standing near. ..."

2. The Blue Friars: Their Sayings and Doings ; Being a New Chapter in the by William Henry Kearley Wright (1889)
"(The Sacristan may perhaps be here excused in regretting that the MS. reminiscences by His jolliness the Prior are not also added to the Blue Archives, ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"Captain Dundas has opened up a new line into the country without bloodshed, and by a mixture of audacity and jolliness, -which always goes down with the ..."

4. The Yellow Book by Fraser Harrison (1894)
"Times of jolliness and glad indulgence ! For Artifice, whom we drove forth, has returned among us, and, though her eyes are red with crying, she is smiling ..."

5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"As men, they would have been ashamed not to meet our "jolliness" and chumminess with a handsome amount of reciprocation; and so, as I say, my dear, ..."

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