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risibility
[ riz-uh-bil-i-tee ]
noun
- Often risibilities. the ability or disposition to laugh; humorous awareness of the ridiculous and absurd.
risibility
/ ˌrɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ /
noun
- a tendency to laugh
- hilarity; laughter
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Word History and Origins
Origin of risibility1
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Example Sentences
His light-heartedness and risibility were often assumed to hide bitter resentment or boiling indignation.
And they were soon joined by Sir Sedley Clarendel, whose quaint conceits and remarks assisted the risibility of the scene.
My "caubeen" especially excited the risibility of the merry boys who thronged the streets.
A passage which I can refer only to the erudition and risibility of our modern surgeons and anatomists.
I was noted, among my comrades, and not always to my advantage, for my absolutely ungovernable risibility.
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