Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The property of being risible; disposition to laugh.
- noun plural The faculty of laughing; a sense of the ludicrous. Also
risibles .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being risible.
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- noun The property of being
risible .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a disposition to laugh
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Examples
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The gazers at Drilling soldiers discard risibility from the corners of their mouths, and every one led by hand-Bills or by hearing, are acting according to their pride, or their fear, or their interest.
Letter 112 2009
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˜rational mortal animal™ is thought to be the real definition of ˜human being™, regardless of other associated features (even necessary features such as risibility) or fortuitous images (as any mental image of a human will be of someone with determinate features).
Peter Abelard King, Peter 2004
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Perhaps occasional risibility is sometimes the price of reaching not simply for the stars, but for the event-horizon.
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The risibility of the title "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act Bill" is roughly equivalent to the risibility of any similar legislation's chances of being signed into law in the future, regardless of which party is in power.
Sherwin B. Nuland M.D.: Deja Vu: The Repetitious History Of Health Care In America Sherwin B. Nuland M.D. 2011
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At length on his name being announced when a literary gentleman, particularly conversant in rural economy, happened to be present, the poem was formally re-examined, and its general aspect excited the risibility of that gentleman in so pointed a manner, that Bloomfield was called into the room, and exhorted not to waste his time, and neglect his employment, in making vain attempts, and particularly in treading on the ground which
Letter 388 2009
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Perhaps occasional risibility is sometimes the price of reaching not simply for the stars, but for the event-horizon.
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He is keenly alive to the risks—and occasional risibility—of American-style consumerism.
Spend It or Save It? Megan McArdle 2011
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The absurdities he is guilty of, the capers he cuts, excite our philosophic risibility.
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As a rule, I have no time for Jeremy Clarkson, but he is right about the risibility of this rig-out.
Barefoot in the Park: Keeping Up Appearances BikeSnobNYC 2010
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However, beyond risibility, the "tea parties" are also an occasion for something more substantive; namely, a chance to test the resolve of America's 21st Century anti-intellectual movement.
mialuthien commented on the word risibility
risibility – a disposition to laugh; a sense of the ludicrous or amusing
July 14, 2008