Wit vs. Humor

Witnoun

Sanity.

‘He's gone completely out of his wits.’;

Humornoun

alternative spelling of humour|from=American spelling

‘He was in a particularly vile humor that afternoon.’;

Witnoun

The senses.

Humorverb

alternative spelling of humour|from=American spelling

‘I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.’;

Witnoun

Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.

‘Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.’;

Humornoun

Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.

Witnoun

The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.

‘My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.’;

Humornoun

A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin.

Witnoun

Intelligence; common sense.

‘The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!’;

Humornoun

State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor.

‘Examine how your humor is inclined,And which the ruling passion of your mind.’; ‘A prince of a pleasant humor.’; ‘I like not the humor of lying.’;

Witnoun

Humour, especially when clever or quick.

‘The best man's speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.’;

Humornoun

Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.

‘Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humors to be endured?’;

Witnoun

A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.

‘Your friend is quite a wit, isn't he?’;

Humornoun

That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness.

‘For thy sake I admitThat a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit.’; ‘A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the perplexities of mine host.’;

Witverb

Know, be aware of constructed with of when used intransitively.

‘You committed terrible actions — to wit, murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.’; ‘They are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.’;

Humorverb

To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind.

‘It is my part to invent, and the musician's to humor that invention.’;

Witpreposition

(Southern American English) lang=en

Humorverb

To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.

‘You humor me when I am sick.’;

Witverb

To know; to learn.

‘Brethren, we do you to wit [make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia.’; ‘Thou wost full little what thou meanest.’; ‘We witen not what thing we prayen here.’; ‘When that the sooth in wist.’;

Humornoun

a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

Witnoun

Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.

‘Who knew the wit of the Lord? or who was his counselor?’; ‘A prince most prudent, of an excellentAnd unmatched wit and judgment.’; ‘Will puts in practice what wit deviseth.’; ‘He wants not wit the dander to decline.’;

Humornoun

the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous;

‘she didn't appreciate my humor’; ‘you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor’;

Witnoun

A mental faculty, or power of the mind; - used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like.

‘I will stare him out of his wits.’;

Humornoun

a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;

‘whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time’; ‘he was in a bad humor’;

Witnoun

Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.

‘The definition of wit is only this, that it is a propriety of thoughts and words; or, in other terms, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject.’; ‘Wit which discovers partial likeness hidden in general diversity.’; ‘Wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy.’;

Humornoun

the quality of being funny;

‘I fail to see the humor in it’;

Witnoun

A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.

‘In Athens, where books and wits were ever busier than in any other part of Greece, I find but only two sorts of writings which the magistrate cared to take notice of; those either blasphemous and atheistical, or libelous.’; ‘Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe.’; ‘A wit herself, Amelia weds a wit.’; ‘But my five wits nor my five senses canDissuade one foolish heart from serving thee.’;

Humornoun

(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state;

‘the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile’;

Witnoun

a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

Humornoun

the liquid parts of the body

Witnoun

mental ability;

‘he's got plenty of brains but no common sense’;

Humorverb

put into a good mood

Witnoun

a witty amusing person who makes jokes

Witnoun

the capacity for inventive thought and quick understanding; keen intelligence

‘she does not lack perception or native wit’; ‘he needed all his wits to figure out the way back’;

Witnoun

good sense

‘I had the wit to realize that the only way out was up’;

Witnoun

a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humour

‘his caustic wit cuts through the humbug’;

Witnoun

a witty person

‘she is such a wit’;

Witverb

have knowledge

‘I addressed a few words to the lady you wot of’;

Witverb

that is to say (used to be more specific about something already referred to)

‘the textbooks show an irritating parochialism, to wit an almost total exclusion of papers not in English’;

Wit

Wit is a form of intelligent humour, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny. Someone witty is a person who is skilled at making clever and funny remarks.