noun
Meaning 1
the quality of being witty
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
wittiness
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noun
Meaning 2
a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wit, humor, humour, witticism
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: message, content, subject matter, substance
Narrower terms: jeu d'esprit, bon mot, mot, esprit de l'escalier, pungency, bite, sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark, repartee, joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape, caricature, imitation, impersonation, cartoon, sketch, fun, play, sport, ribaldry, topper
History
Etymology
From Middle English wittynesse, equivalent to witty + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: остроу́мие (ostroúmie) — the quality of being witty
- Bulgarian: духовитост (duhovitost) — the quality of being witty
- Chinese Mandarin: 風趣 /风趣 (fēngqù) — the quality of being witty
- Czech: duchaplnost — the quality of being witty
- Danish: vittighed — the quality of being witty
- Finnish: nasevuus — the quality of being witty
- German: Witzigkeit — the quality of being witty
- Ancient Greek: ἀστειότης (asteiótēs) — the quality of being witty
- Irish: eagnaíocht — the quality of being witty
- Irish: tráthúlacht — the quality of being witty
- Irish: abarthacht — the quality of being witty
- Italian: lepidezza — the quality of being witty
- Italian: lepidità — the quality of being witty
- Plautdietsch: Witsichkjeit — the quality of being witty
- Portuguese: argúcia — the quality of being witty
- Portuguese: sagacidade — the quality of being witty
- Portuguese: perspicácia — the quality of being witty
- Russian: остроу́мие (ostroúmije) — the quality of being witty
- Russian: сообрази́тельность (soobrazítelʹnostʹ) — the quality of being witty
- Serbo-Croatian: до̀мишљато̄ст — the quality of being witty
- Serbo-Croatian: досјѐтљиво̄ст — the quality of being witty
- Serbo-Croatian: dòmišljatōst — the quality of being witty
- Serbo-Croatian: dosjètljivōst — the quality of being witty
- Serbo-Croatian: dosètljivōst — the quality of being witty
- Spanish: gracejo — the quality of being witty
- Spanish: donaire — the quality of being witty
- Spanish: donosura — the quality of being witty
- Swedish: fyndighet — the quality of being witty
- Welsh: ffraethineb — the quality of being witty