risibilityn.

Brit.

/ˌrɪzᵻˈbɪlᵻti/,

/ˌrʌɪzᵻˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S.

/ˌrɪzəˈbɪlᵻdi/

Forms: 1600s risibilitie, 1600s– risibility.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a Latin lexical item, and partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: risible adj., -bility suffix.

Etymology: < risible adj. (see -bility suffix), partly after post-classical Latin risibilitas capacity for laughing (6th cent. in Boethius) and French risibilité faculty of laughing (16th cent. in Middle French). Compare Spanish risibilidad (17th cent.), Portuguese risibilidade (1710), Italian risibilità (a1694).

1. The faculty of laughing; laughter; a disposition to laugh.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > [noun] > faculty or disposition

risibility1620

1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 55 Laughter, or risibility, is an effect by emanation of the reasonable soule.

1652 S. Stone Congregational Church sig. E2 Risibility is an adjunct of man existing in him as his own.

1709 Tatler No. 63. ⁋5 Risibility being the Effect of Reason, a Man ought to be expelled from sober Company, who laughs alone.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. i. 8 His exalted post..had moved the wonder and risibility of all the company.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xx. 315 He had himself some disposition to join her too obvious inclination to risibility.

1851 W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers IV. 66 He could never hear that peculiar dialect without his risibility being affected.

1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders II. xi. 216 The tears of her risibility mingled with the remnants of those engendered by her grief.

1923 C. Mackenzie Parson's Progress xii. 151 Chator was..in danger of falling under the table, such was the state of acute risibility to which he had been reduced.

1944 K. Tynan Let. 26 Jan. (1994) i. 29 I admit to submitting to no little measure of risibility at my first reading these gems.

1989 J. Updike Self-consciousness vi. 214 The New Yorker cartoonist, to occasion a laugh, has merely to limn white-robed people on clouds, with harps..and haloes thrown in for added risibility.

2. In plural. U.S. The inclination to laugh; a sense of the amusing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > [noun] > the risible faculties

risibles1785

risibilities1805

1805 Lit. Mag. May 344/1 He took pleasure in the effects which the sight of his own deformity produced, and betokened his satisfaction by a laugh, which might have served as a model to the poet who has depicted the ghastly risibilities of Death.

1856 P. Cartwright Autobiogr. xii. 142 I had very hard work to keep down my risibilities.

1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. xviii. 204 An Italian comedy,..effective over everybody's risibilities except his own.

1921 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 20 Feb. 6/4 The racy bits of dialogue of all simon-pure bedroom farces which seem to excite the risibilities of many.

1948 Fantasy Bk. 1 64 It's fantasy, flavored with fannish happenings worked into the (hot) plot to tickle the risibilities of the cognoscenti.

2001 H. D. Spalding Encycl. Jewish Humor x. 91 What did the Jews laugh at circa 300 C.E.? Pretty much the same things that tickle their risibilities today.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	risibility
释义	risibilityn. Brit. /ˌrɪzᵻˈbɪlᵻti/, /ˌrʌɪzᵻˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌrɪzəˈbɪlᵻdi/ Forms: 1600s risibilitie, 1600s– risibility. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a Latin lexical item, and partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: risible adj., -bility suffix. Etymology: < risible adj. (see -bility suffix), partly after post-classical Latin risibilitas capacity for laughing (6th cent. in Boethius) and French risibilité faculty of laughing (16th cent. in Middle French). Compare Spanish risibilidad (17th cent.), Portuguese risibilidade (1710), Italian risibilità (a1694). 1. The faculty of laughing; laughter; a disposition to laugh. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > [noun] > faculty or disposition risibility1620 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 55 Laughter, or risibility, is an effect by emanation of the reasonable soule. 1652 S. Stone Congregational Church sig. E2 Risibility is an adjunct of man existing in him as his own. 1709 Tatler No. 63. ⁋5 Risibility being the Effect of Reason, a Man ought to be expelled from sober Company, who laughs alone. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. i. 8 His exalted post..had moved the wonder and risibility of all the company. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xx. 315 He had himself some disposition to join her too obvious inclination to risibility. 1851 W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers IV. 66 He could never hear that peculiar dialect without his risibility being affected. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders II. xi. 216 The tears of her risibility mingled with the remnants of those engendered by her grief. 1923 C. Mackenzie Parson's Progress xii. 151 Chator was..in danger of falling under the table, such was the state of acute risibility to which he had been reduced. 1944 K. Tynan Let. 26 Jan. (1994) i. 29 I admit to submitting to no little measure of risibility at my first reading these gems. 1989 J. Updike Self-consciousness vi. 214 The New Yorker cartoonist, to occasion a laugh, has merely to limn white-robed people on clouds, with harps..and haloes thrown in for added risibility. 2. In plural. U.S. The inclination to laugh; a sense of the amusing. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > [noun] > the risible faculties risibles1785 risibilities1805 1805 Lit. Mag. May 344/1 He took pleasure in the effects which the sight of his own deformity produced, and betokened his satisfaction by a laugh, which might have served as a model to the poet who has depicted the ghastly risibilities of Death. 1856 P. Cartwright Autobiogr. xii. 142 I had very hard work to keep down my risibilities. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. xviii. 204 An Italian comedy,..effective over everybody's risibilities except his own. 1921 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 20 Feb. 6/4 The racy bits of dialogue of all simon-pure bedroom farces which seem to excite the risibilities of many. 1948 Fantasy Bk. 1 64 It's fantasy, flavored with fannish happenings worked into the (hot) plot to tickle the risibilities of the cognoscenti. 2001 H. D. Spalding Encycl. Jewish Humor x. 91 What did the Jews laugh at circa 300 C.E.? Pretty much the same things that tickle their risibilities today. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1620
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