laughableness
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
laughableness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being laughable; ludicrousness.
- 1889, Alfred Emerson, “On the Conception of Low Comedy in Aristophanes”, in The American Journal of Philology, volume 10, number 3, page 276:
- We obtain a true perception of the laughableness of this sort of buffoonery.
- 1989, Richard F. Moorton Jr., “Rites of Passage in Aristophanes' Frogs”, in The American Journal of Philology, volume 84, number 4, page 317:
- They encounter Empousa, the comic monster, who reminds us in spite of her laughableness of the dangerousness of the other.
- 2003, Perez Zagorin, “Looking for Pieter Bruegel”, in Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 64, number 1, page 89:
- Two sayings from Seneca speak of the laughableness of man's ambitions on an earth scarred by the wars of so many nations.
References edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.