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risibility

noun
ris·​i·​bil·​i·​ty | \ ËŒri-zÉ™-ˈbi-lÉ™-tÄ“ How to pronounce risibility (audio) \
plural risibilities

Definition of risibility

1 : laughter
2 : the ability or inclination to laugh —often used in plural our risibilities support us as we skim over the surface of a deep issue— J. A. Pike

Examples of risibility in a Sentence

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 His great talent was to take tiny grains of information in reports and proposals, repackage them as official European policy and present them as part of a broad narrative about Brussels’s risibility. — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, "Boris Johnson Heckled Outside Home," 30 June 2016

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First Known Use of risibility

1620, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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