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Ridiculousness vs Drollery - What's the difference?

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Ridiculousness is a related term of drollery.


As nouns the difference between ridiculousness and drollery

is that ridiculousness is (uncountable) the characteristic of being ridiculous while drollery is comical quality.

ridiculousness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The characteristic of being ridiculous.
  • (countable) The result of being ridiculous.

    • Synonyms

    * ridiculosity (less common)

    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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