HUMOR vs WITTICISM: NOUN
- Specifically— Disposition, especially a capricious disposition; freak; whim; vagary; oddness of mood or manners: in this sense very fashionable in the time of Shakspere.
- Hence One's special condition of mind or quality of feeling; peculiarity of disposition, permanent or temporary; mental state; mood: as, a surly humor; a strange humor.
- An animal fluid, whether natural or morbid; now, especially, any of the thinner bodily fluids, limpid, serous, or sanious, as the constituent fluids or semi-fluids of the eye, or the watery matter in some cutaneous eruptions.
- Moisture; an exhalation.
- Capricious or peculiar behavior.
- A sudden, unanticipated inclination; a whim.
- An often temporary state of mind; a mood.
- The trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
- Vitreous humor.
- Aqueous humor.
- A body fluid, such as blood, lymph, or bile.
- One of the four fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, choler, and black bile, whose relative proportions were thought in ancient and medieval physiology to determine a person's disposition and general health.
- The ability to perceive, enjoy, or express what is amusing, comical, incongruous, or absurd.
- That which is intended to induce laughter or amusement.
- The quality that makes something laughable or amusing; funniness.
- The liquid parts of the body
- A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
- A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
- The quality of being funny
- A person's characteristic disposition or temperament.
- A fluid or semi-fluid of the body.
- Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
- A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
- A facetious or jocular turn of mind, as in conversation; the disposition to find, or the faculty of finding, ludicrous aspects or suggestions in common facts or notions.
- See Eye.
- That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness.
- Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.
- State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood
- A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin.
- Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.
- Wit, Humor (see wit); pleasantry, jocoseness, facetiousness, jocularity.
- And
- Fancy, whimsey, crotchet, fad.
- See the adjectives.
- In lit., witty, droll, or jocose imagination, conspicuous in thought and expression, and tending to excite amusement; that quality in composition which is characterized by the predominance of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous in the choice or treatment of a theme: distinguished from wit, which implies superior subtlety and finer thought. Humor in literature may be further distinguished by its humane and sympathetic quality, by force of which it is often found blending the pathetic with the ludicrous, and by the same stroke moving to tears and laughter, in this respect improving upon the pure and often cold intellectuality which is the essence of wit.
- Dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant frame of mind.
- A witty remark.
- A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit.
- A witty sentence, phrase, or remark; an observation characterized by wit.
- A witty remark. : joke.
- A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
HUMOR vs WITTICISM: VERB
- : To pacify by indulging.
- Put into a good mood
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HUMOR vs WITTICISM: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To comply with the wishes or ideas of (another) in order to keep that person satisfied or unaware of criticism; indulge.
- To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation.
- To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.
- To adapt or accommodate oneself to: : pamper.
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HUMOR vs WITTICISM: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To comply with the humor, fancy, or disposition of; soothe by compliance; indulge; gratify.
- To endeavor to comply with the peculiarities or exigencies of; adapt one's self to; suit or accommodate: as, to humor one's part or the piece.
- Synonyms Indulge, etc. See gratify.
- To give a slight direction or turn to (a fly, in fishing, or the like).
- (idiom) (out of humor) In a bad mood; irritable.
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HUMOR vs WITTICISM: RELATED WORDS
- Indulge, Fun, Joke, Irony, Comedy, Funny, Humorous, Sense of humour, Sense of humor, Humour, Mood, Temper, Witticism, Wittiness, Wit
- Drollery, Malapropism, Wordplay, Aphorism, Wisecrack, Epigram, Repartee, Bon mot, Mot, Jest, Quip, Humour, Wittiness, Humor, Wit
HUMOR vs WITTICISM: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Sarcasm, Eight, Fun, Joke, Irony, Comedy, Funny, Humorous, Sense of humour, Humour, Mood, Temper, Witticism, Wittiness, Wit
- Doggerel, Drollery, Malapropism, Wordplay, Wisecrack, Epigram, Repartee, Bon mot, Mot, Jest, Quip, Humour, Wittiness, Humor, Wit
HUMOR vs WITTICISM: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Handbook Choose someone with a sense of humor.
- There can be talkativeness, good humor, and laughing.
- Intensity, yes, but so much humor as well.
- Humor theories and the physiological benefits of laughter.
- Trabeculectomy will increase the outflow of aqueous humor, thus relieving the pressure of the excess aqueous humor.
- Let a Sense of Humor Break Presumptions Having a sense of humor does more than produce smiles and laughter.
- Jesus was using humor in that passage and He had a great sense of humor and I connect with that.
- Try to find the humor in as many situations as you can and show off that humor to your crush.
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- See more ideas about christmas humor, naughty, holiday humor.
- Something said or done to excite laughter or amusement; a witticism, a jest; jesting, raillery; also, something that causes amusement, a ridiculous circumstance.
- Witticism thrives in socially challenging situations when speed and verbal and mental adroitness are of the utmost importance.
- We almost seem to hear the coarse Rabbinic witticism in its play on the word Beelzebul.
- The Expanse, the Martian fighter pilot with Texan drawl and witticism up his sleeve.
- Theodore II Lascaris was the author of many a barbed witticism.
- Our crucial witticism is to offer quality kinds of help.
- Rebekah was repentantly spitting before the oversea schizo witticism.
- Textual manipulations signifying jokes, irony, witticism, and sarcasm.
HUMOR vs WITTICISM: QUESTIONS
- How does aqueous humor enter the circulatory system?
- What is the dictionary definition of irreverent humor?
- Should you break your self-deprecating humor habit?
- Was ist der Unterschied zwischen Weisheit und Humor?
- Should self-disparaging humor be used around children?
- Why is humor important in early childhood education?
- Apakah humor bisa membantu orang merasa lebih baik?
- What are the best subreddits for programming humor?
- Do empathetic extraverts have different kinds of humor?
- What is Morreall's irrationality objection to humor?
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