risibility
Often risibilities. the ability or disposition to laugh; humorous awareness of the ridiculous and absurd.
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How to use risibility in a sentence
His light-heartedness and risibility were often assumed to hide bitter resentment or boiling indignation.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first | Count Carlo GozziAnd they were soon joined by Sir Sedley Clarendel, whose quaint conceits and remarks assisted the risibility of the scene.
Camilla | Fanny BurneyMy "caubeen" especially excited the risibility of the merry boys who thronged the streets.
The Felon's Track | Michael DohenyA passage which I can refer only to the erudition and risibility of our modern surgeons and anatomists.
Gilbertus Anglicus | Henry Ebenezer HandersonI was noted, among my comrades, and not always to my advantage, for my absolutely ungovernable risibility.
Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth | George Brandes
British Dictionary definitions for risibility
/ (ˌrɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ) /
a tendency to laugh
hilarity; laughter
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