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humour
  1. (uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. [from the early 18th c.]
  2. (uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
  3. (archaic or historical) Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
  4. (medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
  5. (obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “His was a speech laced with much humour and more than a little self-deprecation.”
      “Huck's description of their feud is laced with humour.”
      “Satires and parodies, often synonymous with the performance of humour, demand the manipulation of literary tropes.”
humorism
  1. (medicine) The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.
  2. The manner or disposition of a humorist; humorousness.
humoralism
  1. (medicine) The state or quality of being humoral.
  2. (medicine) The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humours; humorism.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The analysis focuses on Conti's reactivation of the humoralism of classic antiquity in the context of Enlightenment philosophy.”
humorousness
  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being humorous.
  2. (countable) The result or product of being humorous.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The humorousness of the phrasing of this home-spun wisdom only serves to make it more pernicious.”
      “We instructed the participants to read each one and to indicate its humorousness by providing a rating from 1 to 5 in the space next to it.”
      “It was invariably an exercise in dreadful, prankish, surrealist humorousness.”
humoralist
  1. One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism.
humorlessness
  1. The state, quality, or condition of lacking humor.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “His opus ends up on top for the sheer indifference, cheapness, humorlessness, pointlessness, meanness, and ineptitude of the entire production.”
      “The humorlessness, self-importance, and complete lack of depth were horrifying but entertaining.”
      “Here she just demonstrates her humorlessness, pastiness and how painful a push-up bra looks on a flat-chested girl.”
humorist
  1. A person who writes or performs humorous material.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “When my friend told me about this aspect of the pre-interview my scheming humorist mind awakened like a sleeping giant.”
      “This can be the combination of orator, humorist, speech writer, or playwright.”
      “It is probably the only story the famous humorist wrote which was supported by an affidavit to its truthfulness.”
humourlessness
  1. Alternative spelling of humorlessness
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Nevertheless, a deadly humourlessness does sometimes accompany teen angst, and when it does, the results can be terrifying.”
      “In his more recent roles, though, the self-deprecating oafishness of his previous roles has been replaced by an impatient humourlessness.”
      “It was a match made in heaven as Zenios is the equal of Dr Eleni in pomposity, humourlessness and moral superiority.”
humorsomeness
  1. The quality of being humorsome.
humourist
  1. (Britain) Alternative spelling of humorist
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The book fairly entitles Mr. Leacock to be considered not only a humourist but a benefactor.”
      “That pretty much sums up the shock-haired, one-liner maestro with the penchant for eye-popping shirts and his skewiff humourist agenda.”
humoursomeness
  1. Quality of being humoursome.
humourism
  1. Alternative form of humorism
humor
  1. American spelling of humour
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  3. Examples:
    1. “His was a speech laced with much humor and more than a little self-deprecation.”
      “Huck's description of their feud is laced with humor.”
      “Satires and parodies, often synonymous with the performance of humor, demand the manipulation of literary tropes.”
humoralisms
  1. plural of humoralism
humoralists
  1. plural of humoralist
humourisms
  1. plural of humourism
humourists
humorists
  1. plural of humorist
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  3. Examples:
    1. “These affect an air of tired superiority in a world of unoriginal humorists.”
      “He is witty, he puns, and sometimes he employs the polysyllabic circumlocution of the nineteenth-century humorists.”
      “This situation completely changed the rules of the game for humorists, at least in my case.”
humours
humors
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