Jokesomeness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The condition or quality of being jokesome; jest uncountable

    "But with a kind of perverse jokesomeness (the hodgepodge of words and symbols on the coffin recollects Addison's examples of "false wit"), she leaves behind a mystifying substitute for the self — [...]"

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"But with a kind of perverse jokesomeness (the hodgepodge of words and symbols on the coffin recollects Addison's examples of "false wit"), she leaves behind a mystifying substitute for the self — [...]"

Etymology

From jokesome + -ness.

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