Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or quality of being farcical; absurdity; something farcical or ridiculous.
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- noun   The property of being farcical .
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Examples
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								Power engendered in 10,000 instances of random error expands in electronic measures of statistical farcicality – Archive 2008-06-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008 
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								Swiftly after that episode the dream ticket farcicality escalated to the dowry negotiations and that is where it hit a brick wall. 
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								He had risen and, despite the farcicality of Dr. Will Main Street 2004 
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								Thus, when you saw the slave struggle, obedient to my signal, I thought the farcicality of his activity would be evident. Fighting Slave Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980 
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								He had risen and, despite the farcicality of Dr. Will Kennicott's bulgy trousers draped over his arm, he had the grace of a cat. Main Street 1920 
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								He had risen and, despite the farcicality of Dr. Will Kennicott's bulgy trousers draped over his arm, he had the grace of a cat. Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918 
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								The best example of such farcicality occurs in the eighth circle, fifth bolgia, where officials, traffickers in public offices, or unjust stewards are immersed in boiling pitch. 
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								They appeared to put the farcicality altogether aside, and to have been much impressed by the character of the music. Prince Fortunatus William Black 1869 
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								This hideous farcicality seemed more vulgar than ever? what would Honnor Cunyngham think of his associates? Prince Fortunatus William Black 1869 
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								It's now 50 years since the publication of his debut novel, Catch 22, that modern classic about the farcicality of war. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Michael Deacon 2011 
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