Comedy vs. Humour

Comedynoun

A choric song of celebration or revel, especially in Ancient Greece.

Comedynoun

(countable) A light, amusing play with a happy ending.

Comedynoun

A narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., The Divine Comedy).

Comedynoun

A dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone.

Comedynoun

(drama) The genre of such works.

Comedynoun

(uncountable) Entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance.

Comedynoun

The art of composing comedy.

Comedynoun

(countable) A humorous event.

Comedynoun

A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; - opposed to tragedy.

Comedynoun

light and humorous drama with a happy ending

Comedynoun

a comic incident or series of incidents

Comedynoun

professional entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches, intended to make an audience laugh

Comedynoun

a film, play, or broadcast programme intended to make an audience laugh

Comedynoun

the style or genre represented by comedy films, plays, and broadcast programmes

Comedynoun

the humorous or amusing aspects of something

Comedynoun

a play characterized by its humorous or satirical tone and its depiction of amusing people or incidents, in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity

Comedynoun

the dramatic genre represented by comedies

Comedy

Comedy (from the Greek: κωμῳδία, kōmōdía) is a genre of fiction comprised of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in Ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters.

Humournoun

(uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.

Humournoun

(uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.

Humournoun

Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.

Humournoun

(medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.

Humournoun

(obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture.

Humourverb

(transitive) To pacify by indulging.

Humournoun

same as humor.

Humournoun

a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;

Humournoun

a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

Humournoun

(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state;

Humournoun

the liquid parts of the body

Humournoun

the quality of being funny;

Humournoun

the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous;

Humourverb

put into a good mood

Humournoun

the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech

Humournoun

the ability to express humour or amuse other people

Humournoun

a mood or state of mind

Humournoun

an inclination or whim

Humournoun

each of the four chief fluids of the body (blood, phlegm, yellow bile (choler), and black bile (melancholy)) that were thought to determine a person's physical and mental qualities by the relative proportions in which they were present.

Humourverb

comply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be

Humourverb

adapt or accommodate oneself to (something)

Humour

Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, ), controlled human health and emotion.