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humourousness

humourousness is the misspelling of humorousness.

Meaning of humorousness

Noun

humorousness (usually uncountable, plural humorousnesses)

  1. (usually) The state or quality of being humorous.
    • The youngsters, not immediately within sight, seemed rather bright and desirable appurtenances than otherwise; the incidents of daily life were not without humorousness and jollity in their aspect there.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 36
  2. (countable, usually) The result or product of being humorous.

Origin of humourousness

From humourous + -ness.

Questions about humourousness

What is humourousness the misspelling of?
Humourousness is the misspelling of humorousness.

Words near humourousness in the dictionary

  1. humourless
  2. humourlessly
  3. humourlessness
  4. humourous
  5. humourously
  6. humourousness
  7. humours
  8. humoursome
  9. humoursomely
  10. humoursomeness
  11. humous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: humourousness (page history and authors); humorousness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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