risibility
\riz-uh-BIL-i-tee\
noun
1. Often, risibilities. the ability or disposition to laugh; humorous awareness of the ridiculous and absurd.
2. laughter.
Quotes
But the little hard bright eyes were invisible now; it was only the bushy overhang of the brows which seemed to concentrate downward toward him in writhen immobility, not frowning but with a sort of fierce risibility.
-- William Faulkner, The Hamlet, 1940
Origin
Risibility stems from the Late Latin word rīsibilis meaning "that can laugh."
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