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facetiousness
noun as in comedy
Strong matches
noun as in drollery
noun as in humor
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in humorousness
noun as in jocosity
Strong matches
noun as in levity
noun as in ludicrousness
Weak matches
- amusement
- badinage
- banter
- buffoonery
- clowning
- comedy
- comicality
- comicalness
- drollery
- drollness
- farce
- farcicality
- flippancy
- fun
- funniness
- gag
- gaiety
- happiness
- high spirits
- humorousness
- jest
- jesting
- jocoseness
- jocosity
- jocularity
- joke
- joking
- joyfulness
- kidding
- levity
- lightness
- playfulness
- pleasantry
- raillery
- ridiculousness
- tomfoolery
- whimsy
- wisecrack
- wit
- witticism
- wittiness
- zaniness
Example Sentences
The brazen facetiousness of such viral posts was central to how Kent’s horror film has circulated within extremely online circles in the years that followed.
Elcheson recalled incorrectly thinking other people were being humorous when in fact they were expressing facetiousness.
Facetiousness aside, I can’t be alone in feeling that I’ve entered the end stage of the Covid-19 Twilight Zone.
Typically for me, back then, this was a case of facetiousness disguising earnestness.
I used to be told, in all seriousness, to read the opinion sections of major newspapers as an edifying activity I explain this, partly out of facetiousness, but partly because I belong to the last generation to remember the age of the opinionators.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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