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humor, n.
(humors)
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more info the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
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humor humour sense of humor sense of humour

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"she didn't appreciate my humor"
"you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"
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humorous humorist
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humourous humourist
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playfulness, fun
more info a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
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humor humour wit witticism wittiness
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witty
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humorous humorist
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humourous humourist
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witty
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member of this domain (topic)
couth couth
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message, content, subject matter, substance
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jeu d'esprit bon mot, mot esprit de l'escalier pungency, bite satire, irony, sarcasm, caustic remark repartee joke, gag, jest, laugh, jape caricature, imitation, impersonation cartoon, sketch fun, play, sport ribaldry topper
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libation roaster
more info a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
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humor humour mood temper

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"whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"
"he was in a bad humor"
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moody
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humor
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humour
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feeling
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peeve sulk, sulkiness good humor, good humour, good temper, amiability ill humor, ill humour, distemper
more info the quality of being funny
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humor humour

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"I fail to see the humor in it"
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humorous humorist
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humourous humourist
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quality
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comicality
more info the liquid parts of the body
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bodily fluid body fluid humor humour liquid body substance
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humoral
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body substance
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aqueous humor, aqueous humour vitreous humor, vitreous humour, vitreous body endolymph perilymph extracellular fluid, ECF intracellular fluid juice, succus karyolymph milk amniotic fluid, amnionic fluid, waters blood serum, blood serum chyle lymph semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come ink secretion black bile, melancholy yellow bile, choler lochia pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering spinal fluid, cerebrospinal fluid
more info (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
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humor humour

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"the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"
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humoral
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body substance
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physiology Middle Ages, Dark Ages antiquity