All facetiousness synonyms

noun facetiousness

• merry-go-round — Also called carousel, carrousel. (in amusement parks, carnivals, etc.) a revolving, circular platform with wooden horses or other animals, benches, etc., on which people may sit or ride, usually to the accompaniment of mechanical or recorded music.
• schtick — shtick.
• slapstick — broad comedy characterized by boisterous action, as the throwing of pies in actors' faces, mugging, and obvious farcical situations and jokes.
• takeoff — a taking or setting off; the leaving of the ground, as in leaping or in beginning a flight in an airplane.
• travesty — a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation: a travesty of justice.
• vaudeville — theatrical entertainment consisting of a number of individual performances, acts, or mixed numbers, as by comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, and magicians. Compare variety (def 9).
• witticism — a witty remark or sentence.
• chaffing — good-natured ridicule or teasing; raillery.
• field day — a day devoted to outdoor sports or athletic contests, as at a school.
• fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
• high time — the appropriate time or past the appropriate time: It's high time he got out of bed.
• jesting — a joke or witty remark; witticism.
• joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
• play on — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• send-up — an entertaining or humorous burlesque or parody; takeoff: The best skit in the revue was a send-up of TV game shows.
• wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.
• comedy — Comedy consists of types of entertainment, such as plays and films, or particular scenes in them, that are intended to make people laugh.
• banter — Banter is teasing or joking talk that is amusing and friendly.
• gag — to introduce usually comic interpolations into (a script, an actor's part, or the like) (usually followed by up).
• joke — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
• whimsy — capricious humor or disposition; extravagant, fanciful, or excessively playful expression: a play with lots of whimsy.
• wisecrack — a smart or facetious remark.
• badinage — Badinage is humorous or light-hearted conversation that often involves teasing someone.
• buffoonery — Buffoonery is foolish behaviour that makes you laugh.
• clowning — clownish behaviour
• gaiety — the state of being joyous, vivacious, or cheerful.
• jest — a joke or witty remark; witticism.
• jocose — given to or characterized by joking; jesting; humorous; playful: a jocose and amusing manner.
• jocosity — the state or quality of being jocose.
• joyfulness — full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.
• kidding — Informal. a child or young person.
• levity — lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness.
• lightness — the state or quality of being light or illuminated.
• raillery — good-humored ridicule; banter.
• tomfoolery — foolish or silly behavior; tomfoolishness.
• aphorism — An aphorism is a short witty sentence which expresses a general truth or comment.
• lark — a merry, carefree adventure; frolic; escapade.
• prank — a trick of an amusing, playful, or sometimes malicious nature.
• pun — the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
• quip — a clever or witty remark or comment.
• sally — a sortie of troops from a besieged place upon an enemy.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• whimsicality — Also, whimsicalness. whimsical quality or character.
• wordplay — clever or subtle repartee; verbal wit.
• bon mot — A bon mot is a clever, witty remark.
• practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
• waggery — the action, spirit, or language of a wag; roguish or droll humor: the waggery of Shakespeare's clowns.
• farcicality — pertaining to or of the nature of farce.
• ridiculousness — causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable: a ridiculous plan.