Witzelsucht

“Stedman's Medical Dictionary lists an ailment known as Witzelsucht -- literally ` wit-seeking '-- which is characterized by "a morbid tendency to pun and tell pointless stories while being inordinately entertained thereby.”

Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1

“This is Witzelsucht a German term meaning “searching for wit” and is associated with coarse brain disease.”

Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry

“In his first paragraph, Witzelsucht doesn't mean ` witseeking 'but ` wit-mania.”

Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3

“It’s like Witzelsucht, but the jokes are about conservatives and republicans, their pointless ideology and failed programs and constant incompetence, and you laugh harder, at the conservatives, who are all the butt of the jokes.”

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