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Definition of Laughableness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laughableness
Literary usage of Laughableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"There is no inherent exclusion of such laughableness; the famous Schopenhauerian
example of the comic,—the curve and its tangent ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"There is no inherent exclusion of such laughableness; the famous Schopenhauerian
example of the comic,—the curve and its tangent,—indicate that in one ..."
3. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"The laughableness of this comedy, as well as of The Wonder, depends on a brilliant
series of mistimed exits and entrances. Marplot is the whimsical hero of ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"The laughableness of this comedy, as well as of "The Wonder," depends on a
brilliant series of mistimed exits and entrance?. Marplot is the whimsical hero ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"But the bost of all is just the mixture of laughableness and likable- ness that
makes the rentier turn so often to the excellent portrait that forms the ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"This piece has the merit of brevity as well as laughableness. As a famous doctor
laid down that one should always rise from dinner with an appetite, ..."
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