Humorous vs Jocularity - What's the difference?
humorous | jocularity |
Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
Showing humor; witty, jocular.
(obsolete) Damp or watery.
(obsolete) Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.
*, II.8:
Joking, humorous remarks or behaviour.
* 1791 , , The Life of Samuel Johnson :
As an adjective humorous
is full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.As a noun jocularity is
joking, humorous remarks or behaviour.humorous
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Alternative forms
* humourous (unusual )Adjective
(en adjective)- The waiters were so humorous - one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him.
- It is a melancholy humor of writing into my head.
Synonyms
* (arousing laughter ): amusing, funny * (witty ): amusing, jocular, witty * See also * See alsoDerived terms
* humorouslyjocularity
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Noun
(jocularities)- It should seem he had that day been in a humour for jocularity and merriment, and upon such occasions I never knew a man laugh more heartily.