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Facetiousness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The state of being facetious

n. The product or result of being facetious.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The quality of being facetious; sportive humor; pleasantry; the quality of exciting laughter or good humor.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. playful humor

Word Usage

"Update: The point of my facetiousness is to simply point out that when societal attitudes begin to change for the better regarding race, it always seems like (many) far-right conservatives are waiting to seize on (or invent) anything that could be considered an "overreach"."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

playfulness fun

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

pleasantry

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

waggery jocularity persiflage badinage drollery