WIT vs WITTICISM: NOUN
- A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- Knowledge; wisdom; intelligence; sagacity; judgment; sense.
- 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 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
- 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.
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
- Spoken humour, especially when clever or quick.
- Intelligence; common sense.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
- The senses.
- Sanity.
- The five senses; also, sometimes, the five qualities or faculties, common wit, imagination, fantasy, estimation, and memory.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Conceit; idea; thought; design; scheme; plan.
- The keen perception and apt expression of those connections between ideas which awaken pleasure and especially amusement. See the quotations and the synonyms.
- Imagination; the imaginative faculty.
- Knowledge; information.
- Ingenuity; skill.
- 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
WIT vs WITTICISM: VERB
- Know, be aware of (construed with of when used intransitively).
- To know; to learn.
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WIT vs WITTICISM: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To be or become aware of; learn.
- To know.
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WIT vs WITTICISM: PREPOSITION
- Alternative spelling of with.
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WIT vs WITTICISM: OTHER WORD TYPES
- See wite.
- To play the wit; be witty: with an indefinite it.
- Past participle: wist.
- 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.
- To know; be or become aware: used with or without an object, the object when present often being a clause or statement.
- Preterit tense: I, etc., wist (erroneously wotted).
- (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.
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WIT vs WITTICISM: RELATED WORDS
- Inventiveness, Quipster, Intellect, Eloquence, Learning ability, Mental capacity, Card, Mentality, Brain, Wag, Humour, Brainpower, Witticism, Wittiness, Humor
- Drollery, Malapropism, Wordplay, Aphorism, Wisecrack, Epigram, Repartee, Bon mot, Mot, Jest, Quip, Humour, Wittiness, Humor, Wit
WIT vs WITTICISM: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Wisdom, Comedy, Humorous, Acumen, Astuteness, Quipster, Intellect, Eloquence, Card, Brain, Wag, Humour, Witticism, Wittiness, Humor
- Doggerel, Drollery, Malapropism, Wordplay, Wisecrack, Epigram, Repartee, Bon mot, Mot, Jest, Quip, Humour, Wittiness, Humor, Wit
WIT vs WITTICISM: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Juneja Enterprises Gold Happy Birthday Foil Balloon Wit.
- Eugene Wit la, painter, poet, and business man.
- Love you for your sharp wit and humor.
- Charisma, intelligence, wit, charm, sex appeal, and flirtatious.
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- To customize any aspect of a WIT requires updating the XML definition for the WIT.
- WIT which exceeds the allowed number of workflow states for any one WIT.
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- 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.
WIT vs WITTICISM: QUESTIONS
- Where did Ride wit Me peak on the Billboard Hot 100?
- Will A-Boogie wit da Hoodie and Ella Rodriguez reunite?
- How does Rosalind show wit and ingenuity in the play?
- Waarom moet je de verkoopovereenkomst zwart op wit staan?
- What did Benjamin Franklin say about wit and wealth?
- How do I obtain a current certification through wit?
- What was behind the bravura journalism and rapier wit?
- Did Priya kuthu's jamming session end wit'arabickuthu'?
- Wanneer was de eerste zwart-wit-televisie-uitzending?
- Is the Wit&Wisdom curriculum appropriate for children?
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