Synonyms for humorousness
- amusement
- badinage
- banter
- buffoonery
- clowning
- comedy
- comicality
- drollery
- facetiousness
- farce
- flippancy
- fun
- funniness
- gag
- gaiety
- happiness
- jest
- jocoseness
- jocosity
- jocularity
- comicalness
- drollness
- farcicality
- high spirits
- jesting
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Antonyms for humorousness
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A warm-hearted, emotional girl was Lady Mabella, who laughed at the humorousness of being alive.
WORD ORIGIN
early 15c., "relating to the body humors," a native formation from humor, or else from Middle French humoreux "damp," from Old French humor (see humor (n.)). The meaning "funny" dates from 1705 in English. Related: Humorously; humorousness.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR HUMOROUSNESS
comedy
nounfunny entertainment- ball
- burlesque
- camp
- chaffing
- comic drama
- comicality
- comicalness
- drollery
- drollness
- facetiousness
- farce
- field day
- fun
- fun and games
- funnies
- funniness
- gag show
- grins
- high camp
- high time
- hilarity
- hoopla
- humor
- humorousness
- interlude
- jesting
- joking
- laughs
- light entertainment
- merry-go-round
- picnic
- play on
- satire
- schtick
- send-up
- sitcom
- slapstick
- takeoff
- travesty
- vaudeville
- wisecracking
- witticism
- wittiness
comicality
nounhumordrollness
nounhumorfarcicality
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