WIT vs HUMOR: NOUN
- A mental faculty, or power of the mind; -- used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases.
- Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.
- In more recent use wit in the singular generally implies comic wit; in that sense it is different from humor. One principal difference is that wit always lies in some form of words, while humor may be expressed by manner, as a smile, a grimace, an attitude. Underlying this is the fact, consistent with the original meaning of the words, that humor goes more deeply into the nature of the thought, while wit catches pleasing but occult or farfetched resemblances between things really unlike: a good pun shows wit; Iiving's “History of New York” is a piece of sustained humor, the humor lying in the portrayal of character, the nature of the incidents, etc. Again, “Wit may, I think, be regarded as a purely intellectual process, while humor is a sense of the ridiculous controlled by feeling, and coexistent often with the gentlest and deepest pathos” (H. Reed, Lects. on Eng. Lit., xi. 357). Hence humor is always kind, while wit may be unkind in the extreme: Swift's “Travels of Gulliver” is much too severe a satire to be called a work of humor. It is essential to the effect of wit that the form in which it is expressed should be brief; humor may be heightened in its effect by expansion into full forms of statement, description, etc Wit more often than humor depends upon passing circumstances for its effect.
- =Syn.6. Wit, Humor. In writers down to the time of Pope wit generally meant the serious kind of wit.
- The keen perception and apt expression of those connections between ideas which awaken pleasure and especially amusement. See the quotations and the synonyms.
- Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.
- A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.
- The five senses; also, sometimes, the five qualities or faculties, common wit, imagination, fantasy, estimation, and memory.
- Sanity.
- The senses.
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
- Intelligence; common sense.
- Spoken humour, especially when clever or quick.
- Conceit; idea; thought; design; scheme; plan.
- Imagination; the imaginative faculty.
- Ingenuity; skill.
- Knowledge; information.
- Mind; understanding; intellect; reason; in the plural, the faculties or powers of the mind or intellect; senses: as, to be out of one's wits; he has all his wits about him.
- Knowledge; wisdom; intelligence; sagacity; judgment; sense.
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
- A person of exceptional intelligence.
- Intelligent playfulness or humor in expression, as in speech, writing, or art.
- A person noted for this ability, especially in conversation.
- The ability to express oneself intelligently in a playful or humorous manner, often in overturning audience expectations.
- Sound mental faculties; sanity.
- Practical intelligence; shrewdness or resourcefulness.
- The natural ability to perceive and understand; intelligence.
- Mental ability
- A witty amusing person who makes jokes
- One who has discernment, reason, or judgment; a person of acute perception; especially, one who detects between associated ideas the finer resemblances or contrasts which give pleasure or enjoyment to the mind, and who gives expression to these for the entertainment of others; often, a person who has a keen perception of the incongruous or ludicrous, and uses it for the amusement and frequently at the expense of others.
- A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- Moisture; an exhalation.
- 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.
- 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.
- Specifically— Disposition, especially a capricious disposition; freak; whim; vagary; oddness of mood or manners: in this sense very fashionable in the time of Shakspere.
- 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.
- 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.
- See the adjectives.
- Fancy, whimsey, crotchet, fad.
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- Capricious or peculiar behavior.
- Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.
- A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin.
- 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
- Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.
- 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.
- See Eye.
- Dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant frame of mind.
- A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
- Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
- A fluid or semi-fluid of the body.
- Wit, Humor (see wit); pleasantry, jocoseness, facetiousness, jocularity.
- A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
- The liquid parts of the body
- (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
- The quality that makes something laughable or amusing; funniness.
- That which is intended to induce laughter or amusement.
- The ability to perceive, enjoy, or express what is amusing, comical, incongruous, or absurd.
- The quality of being funny
- A body fluid, such as blood, lymph, or bile.
- Aqueous humor.
- Vitreous humor.
- A person's characteristic disposition or temperament.
- An often temporary state of mind; a mood.
- A sudden, unanticipated inclination; a whim.
- The trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
- 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.
WIT vs HUMOR: VERB
- Know, be aware of (construed with of when used intransitively).
- To know; to learn.
- Put into a good mood
- : To pacify by indulging.
WIT vs HUMOR: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To know.
- To be or become aware of; learn.
- N/A
WIT vs HUMOR: TRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- 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.
- To comply with the wishes or ideas of (another) in order to keep that person satisfied or unaware of criticism; indulge.
WIT vs HUMOR: PREPOSITION
- Alternative spelling of with.
- N/A
WIT vs HUMOR: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Present participle: witting, sometimes weeting (erroneously wotting). Compare unwitting.
- [The phrase to wit is now used chiefly to call attention to some particular, or as introductory to a detailed statement of what has been just before mentioned generally, and is equivalent to ‘namely,’ ‘that is to say’: as, there were three present—to wit, Mr. Brown. Mr. Green, and Mr. Black.
- Infinitive: wit (to wit); hence, to do to wit, to cause (one) to know.
- Preterit tense: I, etc., wist (erroneously wotted).
- See wite.
- To know; be or become aware: used with or without an object, the object when present often being a clause or statement.
- To play the wit; be witty: with an indefinite it.
- Past participle: wist.
- (idiom) (at (one's) wits' end) At the limit of one's mental resources; utterly at a loss.
- (idiom) (have/keep) To remain alert or calm, especially in a crisis.
- (idiom) (to wit) That is to say; namely.
- To give a slight direction or turn to (a fly, in fishing, or the like).
- Synonyms Indulge, etc. See 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.
- To comply with the humor, fancy, or disposition of; soothe by compliance; indulge; gratify.
- (idiom) (out of humor) In a bad mood; irritable.
WIT vs HUMOR: RELATED WORDS
- Inventiveness, Quipster, Intellect, Eloquence, Learning ability, Mental capacity, Card, Mentality, Brain, Wag, Humour, Brainpower, Witticism, Wittiness, Humor
- Indulge, Fun, Joke, Irony, Comedy, Funny, Humorous, Sense of humour, Sense of humor, Humour, Mood, Temper, Witticism, Wittiness, Wit
WIT vs HUMOR: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Wisdom, Comedy, Humorous, Acumen, Astuteness, Quipster, Intellect, Eloquence, Card, Brain, Wag, Humour, Witticism, Wittiness, Humor
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