Wit vs. Humour

Witnoun

Sanity.

Witnoun

The senses.

Witnoun

Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.

Witnoun

The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.

Witnoun

Intelligence; common sense.

Witnoun

Humour, especially when clever or quick.

Witnoun

A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.

Witverb

Know, be aware of constructed with of when used intransitively.

Witpreposition

(Southern American English) lang=en

Witverb

To know; to learn.

Witnoun

Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.

Witnoun

A mental faculty, or power of the mind; - used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like.

Witnoun

Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.

Witnoun

A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.

Witnoun

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

Witnoun

mental ability;

Witnoun

a witty amusing person who makes jokes

Witnoun

the capacity for inventive thought and quick understanding; keen intelligence

Witnoun

good sense

Witnoun

a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humour

Witnoun

a witty person

Witverb

have knowledge

Witverb

that is to say (used to be more specific about something already referred to)

Wit

Wit is a form of intelligent humour, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny. Someone witty is a person who is skilled at making clever and funny remarks.

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.