Humour vs Sarcasm - What's the difference?
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(label) Moist vapour, moisture.
Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
*, Book I, New York 2001, p. 147:
* 1763 , (Antoine-Simon Le Page Du Pratz),
(label) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
(label) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (1633?-1684)
* (Robert South) (1634–1716)
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, passage=[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”}}
(label) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
* (Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)
* (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
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, passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour .}}
To pacify by indulging.
(uncountable) A sharp form of humor, intended to hurt, that is marked by mocking with irony, sometimes conveyed in speech with vocal over-emphasis. Insincerely saying something which is the opposite of one's intended meaning, often to emphasize how unbelievable or unlikely it sounds if taken literally, thereby illustrating the obvious nature of one's intended meaning.
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(countable) An act of sarcasm.
In uncountable terms the difference between humour and sarcasm
is that humour is the quality of being amusing, comical, funny while sarcasm is a sharp form of humor, intended to hurt, that is marked by mocking with irony, sometimes conveyed in speech with vocal over-emphasis. Insincerely saying something which is the opposite of one's intended meaning, often to emphasize how unbelievable or unlikely it sounds if taken literally, thereby illustrating the obvious nature of one's intended meaning.As nouns the difference between humour and sarcasm
is that humour is moist vapour, moisture while sarcasm is a sharp form of humor, intended to hurt, that is marked by mocking with irony, sometimes conveyed in speech with vocal over-emphasis. Insincerely saying something which is the opposite of one's intended meaning, often to emphasize how unbelievable or unlikely it sounds if taken literally, thereby illustrating the obvious nature of one's intended meaning.As a verb humour
is to pacify by indulging.humour
English
(wikipedia humour)Alternative forms
* humor (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)- A humour is a liquid or fluent part of the body, comprehended in it, for the preservation of it; and is either innate or born with us, or adventitious and acquisite.
History of Louisisana(PG), (tr. 1774) p. 42:
- For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour , when pressed, that portended danger.
- a prince of a pleasant humour
- I like not the humour of lying.
- Examine how your humour is inclined, / And which the ruling passion of your mind.
- Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humours to be endured?
- For thy sake I admit / That a Scot may have humour , I'd almost said wit.
- A great deal of excellent humour was expended on the perplexities of mine host.
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits.
Synonyms
* bodily fluid * (mood) mood * (something funny) comedy, wit, witticism * (quality of being amusing) amusingness, comedy, comicality, witDerived terms
* aqueous humour * black humour * crystalline humour * gallows humour * humoral * humorous * humorist * humorism * out of humour * sense of humour * toilet humour * vitreous humourVerb
- I know you don't believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true.