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

The value and humorousness of any witty remark made by any person in military uniform is in inverse ratio to the rank and seniority of the individual to whom it is made. 

From Cupid in Africa by Wren, P. C.

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