merriment

noun2

1. •
   A state of enjoyable exuberance.

   • It is recorded that this remarkable prophecy, now largely fulfilled, was received with much merriment—an undeserved fate. — 1955
2. •
   Playful fun.

   • Alas poore Yorick […] VVhere be your Jibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flashes of Merriment that were wont to set the Table on a Rore? — 1599