Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being funny; a funny saying or comical performance.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a comic incident or series of incidents.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a comic incident or series of incidents
Examples
“I'm not sure the "funniness" hasn't hit quite a few Republicans, too.”
“The whole video just crescendo’ed (horrible spelling?) in funniness.”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - This, my friends, made me laugh. Hard.
“Humor used to mean "funniness" was first recorded in 1682, according to the”
“It is the story of a contract with a Sydney event promoter, a subsequent gig on board a Harbour cruise boat with an audience of schoolies, the deep humiliation of 'dying' and the ramifications that lead to the Waverley Magistrates court and the testing of his "funniness" in front of a judge.”
“It makes me feel funny -- and it's not a nice kind of funniness either. ”
“But what I lack in smartness and funniness, I more than make up for in cruelty!”
“Does the idea that the funniness of the money is overwhelmingly the product of free market activity have any implications for your belief in their powers of “self-regulation”?”
“Beyond hipness, beyond funniness, beyond extreme musicality, it's becoming increasingly clear that the John Pizzarelli-Jessica Molaskey show (in its fourth Fall at the Carlyle) is, in an offbeat way, about male-female relationships.”
“We hope this year's show offers its fair share of funniness.”
The Huffington Post: The Funniest Oscar Moments: Which One Was Your Favorite? (VIDEO)
“Not sure who should be more offended here (is that a joke about their age or their politics?); the magazine cites it as an example of how he is "less predictable" than most pols, "unable to resist the force of his own funniness.”
The Washington Post: Quoted: Mike Huckabee's joke about Nancy Pelosi and Helen Thomas
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