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risibility|rɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[ad. late L. rīsibilitas (Boethius); see next and -ity. So F. risibilité, It. -ità, Sp. -idad, Pg. -idade.]
The faculty of laughing; laughter; a disposition to laugh.
1620T. Granger Div. Logike 55 Laughter, or risibility, is an effect by emanation of the reasonable soule. 1642H. More Song of Soul Wks. (Grosart) 142 Some, who prove themselves men more by their risibility, then by their reason. 1709Tatler No. 63 ⁋5 Risibility being the Effect of Reason, a Man ought to be expelled from sober Company, who laughs alone. 1782F. Burney Cecilia v. i, His exalted post..had moved the wonder and risibility of all the company. 1815Scott Guy M. xx, He had himself some disposition to join her too obvious inclination to risibility. 1851W. Hanna Mem. Dr. Chalmers IV. 66 He could never hear that peculiar dialect without his risibility being affected.
b. pl. The risible faculties. U.S.
a1856P. Cartwright Autobiogr. xii. (1858) 76, I had very hard work to keep down my risibilities. 1859Hawthorne Transformation xliii, An Italian comedy,..effective over everybody's risibilities except his own. |