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

There is an odd sort of point, if it can be called a point, on which I would fain say something—and that is an occasional outbreak of sudden, and it may be felt, untimely humorousness.

From Spare Hours by Brown, John

The poet's personal friends know well that he has a good deal of genial, mellow humorousness in his nature.

From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by Kennedy, W. Sloane