humour


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humour
v. pamper, indulge, favor, oblige (also humor)
 
humour (Brit.)
n. humor, quality of being amusing or entertaining, comedy; ability to appreciate or express something amusing; mood, state of mind, disposition; body fluid (Physiology)

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Humour
Humour (in Commonwealth English), or humor (in American English) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), controlled human health and emotion.

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humour

Noun
1. a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"
(synonym) temper, mood, humor
(hypernym) feeling
(hyponym) sulk, sulkiness
(derivation) humor
2. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
(synonym) wit, humor, witticism, wittiness
(hypernym) message, content, subject matter, substance
(hyponym) jeu d'esprit
(class) libation
3. (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"
(synonym) humor
(hypernym) body substance
(classification) physiology
4. the liquid parts of the body
(synonym) liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor
(hypernym) body substance
(hyponym) aqueous humor, aqueous humour
5. the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
(synonym) humor
(hypernym) quality
6. the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"
(synonym) humor, sense of humor, sense of humour
(hypernym) playfulness, fun

Verb
1. put into a good mood
(synonym) humor
(hypernym) gratify, pander, indulge
(derivation) temper, mood, humor


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humour
nm. humor, wittiness, quality of being amusing or entertaining

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humour
nm. humour, funniness, amusing quality