Laughter vs. Humour

Laughternoun

The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.

Laughternoun

A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.

Laughternoun

(archaic) A reason for merriment.

Laughternoun

A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i.

Laughternoun

the sound of laughing

Laughternoun

the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth of scorn;

Laughternoun

the action or sound of laughing

Laughter

Laughter is a physical reaction consisting usually of rhythmical, often audible contractions of the diaphragm and other parts of the respiratory system. It is a response to certain external or internal stimuli.

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.