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Definition: Facetiousness |
FacetiousnessNoun1. Playful humor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "facetiousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Wit | Jocularity; jocosity, jocoseness; facetiousness; waggery, waggishness; whimsicality; comicality. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Facetiousness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Facetiousness" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "facetiousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الفكاهة (humor, humour), المرح (jolly). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шеговитост (jocosity, jocularity, pleasantry). (various references) | |
Czech | bodrost (jauntiness). (various references) | |
French | comédie, caractère facétieux. (various references) | |
German | Scherzhaftigkeit (jocoseness, jocularity, lightheartedness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "תוליות (jesting, mockery), ב"יחות (fun, joy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szellemesség (esprit, neatness, salt, sparkle, wit). (various references) | |
Italian | facezia (gag, jest, joke, witticism, witty remark). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acetiousnessfay.(various references) | |
Russian | несерьезность (flippancy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zabavnost, veselost (cheerfulness, exuberance, exuberancy, happiness, jocosity, jollity, joviality, joy, lightheartedness, mirth, pleasantry). (various references) | |
Spanish | chiste (entertainment, fun, gag, hoaw, jest, joke, motto, point, story, witticism). (various references) | |
Turkish | şakacılık (humorousness, jocosity, jocularity, playfulness, pleasantry, waggery, waggishness), alaycılık (causticity). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính khôi h i (drollness, jocoseness, jocosity), tính h i hước (comicality, humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity), tính bông lơn. (various references) | |
Welsh | ffraethineb (wit), arabedd (humor, wit). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "facetiousness": facetiousnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-i-n-o-s-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: factiousness. | |
-2 letters: necessitous. | |
-3 letters: cessations, countesses, unsafeties. | |
-4 letters: acuteness, caestuses, canoeists, cessation, cineastes, confesses, ecstasies, essonites, eustacies, facetious, fatnesses, fitnesses, fustiness, issuances, notecases, sauciness, seascouts, secession, seicentos, setaceous, sonicates, suitcases, tenacious, uneasiest. | |
-5 letters: acetones, aconites, astonies, auctions, caissons, canoeist, casefies, caseoses, cassinos, casuists, cautions, censuses, centesis, cessions, cestuses, cineaste, cineasts, cistuses, coassist, coesites, coituses, confuses, confutes, consists, contuses, cosiness, countess, counties, cuteness, easiness, enosises, essonite, etesians, eucaines, factions, factious, faiences, fanciest, fascines, fascists, fastness, fiancees, fiascoes, finesses, focusses, foetuses, fussiest, fustians, issuance, noesises, notecase, nutcases, outfaces, safeness, safeties, sauciest, scanties, seascout, sections, seicento, senecios, sensates, sestinas, sestines, sinuates, softness, sonicate, sonsiest, soutanes, stenoses, stenosis, suasions, suctions, suitcase, sustains, teniases, unifaces. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-f-i-n-o-s-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: factiousnesses. | |
+2 letters: facetiousnesses, fractiousnesses. | |
+3 letters: factitiousnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 63 65 74 69 6F 75 73 6E 65 73 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01100011 01100101 01110100 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a c e t i o u s n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0063 0065 0074 0069 006F 0075 0073 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40676971867581878580718585 |
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