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laughableness

noun

Etymology

From laughable + -ness.

  1. inherited from *hlahjaną✻
  2. inherited from *hlahhjan✻
  3. inherited from hlæhhan
  4. inherited from laughen
  5. suffixed as laughable — “laugh + able”
  6. suffixed as laughableness — “laughable + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being laughable

    The state or quality of being laughable; ludicrousness.

    • We obtain a true perception of the laughableness of this sort of buffoonery.
    • They encounter Empousa, the comic monster, who reminds us in spite of her laughableness of the dangerousness of the other.
    • Two sayings from Seneca speak of the laughableness of man's ambitions on an earth scarred by the wars of so many nations.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for laughableness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA