facetiousness
71intelligent — 1 Intellectual, *mental, cerebral, psychic 2 Intelligent, clever, alert, quick witted, bright, smart, knowing, brilliant are comparable when they mean mentally quick or keen. Intelligent implies greater than average power to use one s mind… …
72joke — joke, jest, jape, quip, witticism, wisecrack, crack, gag are comparable when they mean a remark, story, or action intended to evoke laughter. Joke, when applied to a story or remark, suggests something designed to promote good humor and… …
73comedy — n 1. farce, comic opera, It. commedia dell arte. comedy of manners, comedy of errors, musical, musical comedy; burlesque, Theat. burletta, commedietta, travesty, sock, skit; parody, satire, lampoon, gallows humor; harlequinade, pantomime,… …
74fickleness — n 1. capriciousness, fancifulness, giddiness, facetiousness; changeableness, mutability, moodiness; impulsiveness, impetuosity, erraticalness. 2. indecision, uncertainty, irresolution, wishy washiness. 3. inconstancy, unfaithfulness, disloyalty;… …
75folly — n 1. absurdity, absurdness, inanity, point lessness, fatuousness; senselessness, nonsense, nonsen sicalness, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, Archaic. insipience; unreasonableness, irrationality, illogicalness, illogicality; preposterousness,… …
76foolishness — n 1. senselessness, meaninglessness, thoughtlessness, shallowness, vacantness, blankness, vacuousness, emptiness; vapidity, vapidness, insipidity, insipidness, flatness, dullness, tediousness; stupidity, asininity, imbecility, idioticalness,… …
77humor — n 1. comedy, funniness, facetiousness, drollery; wit, ready wit, wittiness, Attic wit, dry wit; gallows humor, black comedy; jocularity, waggishness, banter, raillery; badinage, persiflage, repartee, quip, wisecrack, sarcasm; irony, satire,… …
78jocosity — n 1. playfulness, prankishness, sportiveness, clownishness; jocularity, drollery, facetiousness, wit, humor; humorousness, comicalness, amusingness, drollness, delightfulness; laughableness, ludicrousness, absurdity, farcicality, ridiculousness,… …
79jocularity — n waggishness, drollery, facetiousness, wit, humor; jesting, joking, jocosity. See jocosity …
80joke — n 1. witticism, wisecrack, crack, sally, quip, one liner, jest, Sl. funny, bon mot, pun, play on words, wordplay; Joe Miller, bromide, chestnut; comedy, humor, facetiousness, drollery, whimsy; howl, Sl. rib tickler, Sl. yuk, Sl. haha, Sl. gasser …
