单词 | laughableness |
释义 | > as lemmasˈlaughableness ˈlaughableness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] laughableness1793 side-splitting1834 1793 W. O. Pughe Geiriadur Cynmraeg a Saesoneg: Welsh & Eng. Dict. I. at Çwerthinez Laughableness. 1819 W. Hazlitt Lect. Eng. Comic Writers viii. 317 The laughableness of this comedy..depends on a brilliant series of mistimed exits and entrances. 1928 A. S. Eddington Nat. Physical World xv. 322 A symbolic knowledge of humour which presumes all the characteristics of a joke except its laughableness. 2004 R. Dawkins Ancestor's Tale 235 A duck's bill has a certain intrinsic laughableness. < as lemmas |
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