Comicality vs Drollery - What's the difference?
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The state of being comical.
Something comical.
* 1822 , The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal (page 249)
Comical quality.
* 1915 , :
Amusing behavior.
Something humorous, funny or comical.
(archaic) a puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.
A joke; a funny story.
Comicality is a related term of drollery.
As nouns the difference between comicality and drollery
is that comicality is the state of being comical while drollery is comical quality.comicality
English
Noun
- In this, his forte, he has been less put forward than could have been desired; but when he did appear, his comicalities were infinite, and never failed to convulse the audience with laughter.
drollery
English
Noun
(drolleries)- He found that Sally had a restrained, but keen, sense of the ridiculous, and she made remarks about the girls or the men who were set over them which amused him by their unexpected drollery .