humorousness

Example Sentences

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They trained models on pairs of text snippets that people ranked for their relative humorousness.

From Science Magazine • May 5, 2022

At various points of time as the storm progressed, different online survey participants rated the humorousness of the tweets on one scale and their offensiveness on another.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2014

It's the supposed "humorousness" of his Washington Sketch columns that made them so embarrassing.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2010

‘Well, no harm has been done,’ he answered, with the same subdued and tender humorousness that he had shown on such occasions in early life. 

From Wessex Tales by Hardy, Thomas

He had a quiet humorousness of disposition, not out of keeping with a frequent melancholy, the general expression of his countenance being one of abstraction.

From Desperate Remedies by Hardy, Thomas