HUMOUR

Humour

Humour or humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoural medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours, control human health and emotion.

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humour

Noun

  1. Moist vapour, moisture.
  2. Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
  3. Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
  4. A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
    He was in a particularly vile humour that afternoon.
  5. The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
    She has a great sense of humour, and I always laugh a lot whenever we get together.
    The sensitive subject was treated with humour, but in such way that no one was offended.

Verb

  1. To pacify by indulging.
    I know you don't believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true.


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