funniosityn.
/ˌfʌnɪˈɒsᵻti/, U.S. /ˌfəniˈɑsədi/ colloquial.
1. A comical action, remark, etc.; a joke, a witticism. Also sometimes: a peculiarity, an oddity.In quot. 1871 as the title of a piece of comic entertainment.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical
comedy1535
toy1542
jest1602
joke1670
comic1674
high comedy1707
humorous1753
comicality1796
funny1852
funniosity1871
hot sketch1917
pisser1918
riot1919
panic1921
cocasserie1934
yell1938
mess1952
crack-up1961
1871 Era 29 Jan. 15/2 (advt.) Drawing-room Entertainment entitled Funniosities.
1872 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 9 Nov. 7/2 Their vagaries and ‘funniosities’ are nightly received with unbounded applause.
1890 in W. T. Vincent Recoll. F. Leslie (1894) II. xxiv. 117 Then the conversation reverted for a brief space to that very choice mixture of funniosities.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 5 July 3/2 There is no end to the freaks and funniosities of the cricket field.
1921 S. Graham Europe x. 138 Shylock's cleverness and intellectual assurance was obscured by funniosities.
1991 A. Carter Wise Children (1992) ii. 55 We always felt defiant of the world when we went out with Grandma, we knew she looked a bit of a funniosity.
2008 Waikato (Hamilton, N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 22 Aug. 4 Mr Ronald Chester..has a budget of funniosities that simply compel laughter.
2. Humour, jocularity. Now somewhat rare.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical > quality or condition of
comicalness?1691
comicality1718
vis comica1757
drollness1823
funniness1836
farcicality1849
funniosity1920
zaniness1960
1876 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 30 July 3/1 Funniosity and impecuniosity are very apt to go together.
1899 Manch. Weekly Times 27 Oct. 5/1 ‘The shock—the shout—the groan of war’ is too grim a subject for funniosity.
1920 S. Graham Children of Slaves xiv. 271 The mind stocked with music-hall funniosity and pseudo-cynicism.
2002 Express (Nexis) 1 Jan. (Sport section) 65 You have to laugh at them laughing at their own funniosity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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