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Ludicrousness vs Drollery - What's the difference?

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Ludicrousness is a related term of drollery.


As nouns the difference between ludicrousness and drollery

is that ludicrousness is the state or quality of being ludicrous while drollery is comical quality.

ludicrousness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state or quality of being ludicrous.
  • *1879 , , Andersonville , ch. 51,
  • *:The full ludicrousness of the thing dawned upon me so forcibly that I forgot all about my excitement and scare, and laughed aloud.

    • Synonyms

    *laughableness

    drollery

    English

    Noun

    (drolleries)
  • Comical quality.
  • * 1915 , :
    • 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 .
  • 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.

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