joviality

Other forms of joviality

plural

jovialities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about joviality

What does joviality mean?

joviality means "feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in joviality?

joviality has 5 syllables: jo-vi-a-li-ty. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for joviality?

Close synonyms include jollity, jolliness, conviviality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is joviality a common word?

joviality is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.