jol·li·ty

[jol-i-tee]
noun, plural jol·li·ties.
1.
jolly or merry mood, condition, or activity; gaiety.
2.
jollities, jolly festivities.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English jolite < Old French, equivalent to joli(f) gay (see jolly) + -te -ty2


1. See mirth.
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jollity (ˈdʒɒlɪtɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl -ties
the condition of being jolly

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Jollity is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
Example sentences
Then followed light refreshments, and for a time fan and jollity reigned.
There is, however, a darker side to all this jollity.
His behaviour was marked by an oddly prankish streak and outbursts of genuine
  jollity.
When jollity does break out, it is with a desperate sense of strain.
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