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humor

('h/j//u/m/@/r )

a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter(noun.communication)

Synonym:
humour, wit, witticism, wittiness

source: wordnet30
the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous(noun.attribute)

Example:
She didn't appreciate my humor.
You can't survive in the army without a sense of humor.

Synonym:
humour, sense of humor, sense of humour

source: wordnet30
a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling(noun.feeling)

Example:
He was in a bad humor.

Synonym:
humour, mood, temper

source: wordnet30
the quality of being funny(noun.attribute)

Example:
I fail to see the humor in it.

Synonym:
humour

source: wordnet30
(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state(noun.body)

Example:
The humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile.

source: wordnet30
the liquid parts of the body(noun.body)

Synonym:
bodily fluid, body fluid, humour, liquid body substance

source: wordnet30
Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.(noun)

source: webster1913

put into a good mood(verb.communication)

source: wordnet30
To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind.(verb)

source: webster1913

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