Synonyms of joviality

joviality

noun

as in cheerfulness

a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter

the company's holiday parties often had an air of forced joviality

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheerfulness
• glee
• merriness
• festivity
• cheer
• mirth
• hilarity
• cheeriness
• merriment
• joyfulness
• gleefulness
• mirthfulness
• gaiety
• humor
• joking
• gayness
• brightness
• reveling
• jocundity
• levity
• frivolity
• playfulness
• jollity
• funning
• revelry
• jocularity
• lightheartedness
• jollification
• insouciance
• sunniness
• buoyancy
• flippancy
• giddiness
• vivacity
• buffoonery
• joyousness
• jocosity
• liveliness
• sportiveness
• jesting
• jauntiness
• jubilance
• animation
• joshing
• perkiness
• clownishness
• good-naturedness
• rejoicing
• jocoseness
• rollicking
• gamesomeness
• good-humoredness
• frolicking
• jest
• gamboling
• romping

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sadness
• sorrow
• unhappiness
• melancholy
• dejection
• depression
• gloom
• seriousness
• earnestness
• blues
• forlornness
• gravity
• despondence
• solemnity
• bile
• spleen
• grimness
• sourness
• discontent
• soberness
• moodiness
• mournfulness
• woe
• disgruntlement
• joylessness
• solemnness
• darkness
• plaintiveness
• blackness
• gloominess
• glumness
• graveness
• misery
• mourning
• desolation
• heartbreak
• sobersidedness
• wretchedness
• desolateness
• dolefulness
• woefulness
• dolorousness
• miserableness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of joviality

The crowd gives a sense of international joviality that makes for excellent campfire conversation come nightfall. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Mar. 2026

The next day, standing below the balcony of the Lorraine Motel where the team was staying in Memphis, King yelled down at Jackson in joviality, as if to mitigate the outburst, inviting him to dinner. — Johanna Neuman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026

There was never any danger of an exit as Alcaraz showed a focus that rose above any joviality about a second-hand haircut. — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025