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comicality|kɒmɪˈkælɪtɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ity.]
Comical or comic quality; fact of being comical.
1783F. Burney Diary 17 Jan., Stories, that for humour and comicality I think unequalled. 1824Hist. Gambling ii. 35 Another trick of his Grace..is worthy of record for its comicality. 1866Dickens Lett. 4 Sept., Much better than any amount..of mere comicality.
b. An instance of the comical; a comical thing.
c1774Garrick in Colman's Posth. Lett. (1820) 301 If you intend to stand by y⊇ London Journal, I will prepare some comicality for it. 1818Southey Lett. III. 100 His wife resigns herself with comical composure to all his comicalities. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iv. xvi, ‘Don't you think me a queer little comicality?’ 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xxi. 300 Wearing such comicalities of jackets. |