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JOVIALITY
Definition of JOVIALITY
noun
The state of being jovial; jollity or conviviality.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
JOVIALITY carries 4 further meanings.
noun
The state or quality of being jovial; jovial conduct or amusement; merriment; jollity; festivity.
noun
Synonyms Joy, Glee, etc. (see hilarity); gaiety, Jollity, jocularity, sportiveness.
noun
The quality or state of being jovial.
noun
feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French jovialité.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
JOVIALITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 323 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 5, 26 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
JOVIALITY starts with J and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AIIJLOTVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of JOVIALITY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start JOVIAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found JOVIALITY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 5 - and most players walked straight past it.
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