Definition of humor

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Humor (n.) That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness..

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Wight :: Wight (n.) A human being; a person, either male or female; -- now used chiefly in irony or burlesque, or in humorous language..
Humoralism :: Humoralism (n.) The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humors; humorism.
Crossness :: Crossness (n.) The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
Phlegm :: Phlegm (a.) One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.
Rally :: Rally (n.) Good-humored raillery.
Fantasy :: Fantasy (n.) Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor..
Tantrum :: Tantrum (n.) A whim, or burst of ill-humor; an affected air..
Drama :: Drama (n.) A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage..
Turgent :: Turgent (a.) Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors..
Humorousness :: Humorousness (n.) Facetiousness; jocularity.
Merry :: Merry (superl.) Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.
Placebo :: Placebo (n.) A prescription intended to humor or satisfy.
Humorize :: Humorize (v. t.) To humor.
Ycleped :: Ycleped (p. p.) Called; named; -- obsolete, except in archaic or humorous writings..
Changeable :: Changeable (a.) Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor..
Humorless :: Humorless (a.) Destitute of humor.
Humoralist :: Humoralist (n.) One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism.
Waggish :: Waggish (a.) Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome.
Humorous :: Humorous (a.) Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect..
Buffer :: Buffer (n.) A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man..
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