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risible | seriousness |

As an adjective risible

is of or pertaining to laughter.

As a noun seriousness is

the state or quality of being serious.

risible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to laughter
    • the risible muscles
  • * 1912 , , Hocken and Hunken , ch. 20:
    • A joke merely affected her with silent convulsive twitchings, as though the risible faculties struggled somewhere within her but could not bring the laugh to birth.
  • Provoking laughter; ludicrous; ridiculous; humorously insignificant
  • * 1822 , , Peveril of the Peak , ch. 34:
    • "I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance?" replied his companion.
  • (of a person) Easily laughing; prone to laughter
  • * Dr H. More
    • It has been made the definition of man that he is risible .
  • * 1897 , , The Well-Beloved . ch. 8:
    • She was half risible , half concerned.

    Synonyms

    * (provoking laughter) funny, laughable, ludicrous

    seriousness

    English

    Noun

  • The state or quality of being serious.
  • *, chapter=16
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness . But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=18 citation , passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness . ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
    • Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.