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n. - The trait of merry joking.

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  • Has familiarity blunted the edge of their humorousness?
  • Whatever you do, do not apply your own personal cognitive skills to determining the humorousness of any particular clip.
  • Then in order not to mind too much I loosened my roots, floated a few feet off, and grew to look at things with a faint, pleasant humorousness that spiced my nose like...
  • In his reflections his glance had lingered again upon the pocket-book which Neigh still held in his hand, and upon the two or three rose-leaves on the floor, until he said...
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