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humor
Definition:
(nou) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter (nou) the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous (nou) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling (nou) the quality of being funny (nou) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state (nou) the liquid parts of the body
Phonetic Transcription:
ˈhjuːmə
Examples:
The humor was quite tame by the standards of later comedy.
Much of the character's humor is derived from slapstick comedy.
The actual humor in the joke itself is of the social commentary sort.
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