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ˈhumorousness [f. as prec. + -ness.] The quality of being humorous. a. Fancifulness, whimsicality. arch. b. Facetiousness, jocularity.
1611Cotgr., Bizarrerie, fantasticalnesse, toyishnesse, humorousnesse. 1684J. Goodman Winter Even. Confer. iii. (1705) 91 It must be extream humorousness to deny a Providence in them. 1727Bailey vol. II, Humorousness, comicalness, fulness of pleasantry, fantasticalness. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 456 There was..such a good-natured humourousness, in his countenance. 1861Smiles Engineers II. 333 He had not lost the humorousness which had procured for him the sobriquet of ‘Laughing Tam’. |