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witticism
noun
(wit-ti-cism)
a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
Synonyms:
humor
,
humour
,
wit
,
wittiness
,
Words Related to
witticism
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wit
,
humor
,
wittiness
,
humour
,
quip
,
jest
,
mot
,
bon mot
,
repartee
,
epigram
,
wisecrack
,
aphorism
,
wordplay
,
malapropism
,
drollery
,
doggerel
,
facetiousness
,
anecdote
,
zinger
,
platitude
,
declarative sentence
,
jape
,
pithiness
,
bons mots
,
apercus
,
sarcasms
,
archness
,
shtick
,
simile
,
panegyric
,
ironist
,
neologism
,
max beerbohm
,
paraphrase
,
wryness
,
grandiloquence
,
orotund
,
profundity
,
tautologies
,
coinages
,
absurdism
,
couplets
,
lyric
,
shtik
,
dictum
,
alliteration
,
groucho marx
,
phrase
,
puns
,
putdown
,
jackanapes
,
poesy
,
wiseacre
,
idiosyncrasy
,
locution
,
gags
,
roguishness
,
tragedian
,
jests
,
journalese
,
inanities
,
versifier
,
impishness
,
billet doux
,
scansion
,
guffaws
,
sneery
,
humourist
,
limericks
,
barb
,
epigraph
,
imprecation
,
wordiness
,
circumlocutions
,
sophistries
,
prose
,
conceit
,
persiflage
,
pomposity
,
incredulousness
,
expostulation
,
quippy
,
pompousness
,
retort
,
ripostes
,
koans
,
ditty
,
mirth
,
jokes
,
juvenilia
,
verbosity
,
groaner
,
acerbity
,
wordsmith
,
sayings
,
pedantry
,
samuel beckett
,
malaprop
,
rejoinder
,
cantankerousness
,
witticism
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