humor
20
9.9
- noun
- /ˈhjuːmər/
- Archaic
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humor
- I have no sense of humor, so he must have assumed I was serious.
- the four humors
- balance of the humors
- bodily humors
Now this this has to do with the ancient theory of the humors.
- Now this this has to do with the ancient theory of the humors.
- A temperament is a favoring of one of these humors.
- So it meant that diseases were believed to result from the gods or from bad humors or from these sorts of ideas.
- Because Hippocrates said his treatment for bad humors was to tell the patient to go for a long walk.
- But the medical science at that time was still the four humors theory that people were made of yellow bile, black bile, blood and phlegm.
Examples
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Delaney et al. (2010) state that if an instructor has a good sense of humor, students enjoy classes more.
Academic text (2014) -
There was a glimmer of wryness, almost humor, beneath his words.
Fiction book (1991) -
Multiple runs of Life Magazine when it was a humor magazine.
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No sense of humor at all.
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Death has given us individual worth, fear, love, humor, the knowledge of good and evil, and values.
Fiction book (1993) -
I mean, just no humor to it whatsoever.
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Very little research was found on the use of humor in coaching.
Academic text (2003) -
Despite what he says, Ajubel's humor makes people smile while it also makes them think.
Academic text (1995) -
For women, the relationship was perfect between humor and liking, and significantly different from men.
Academic text (2003) -
The ancient Greeks believed that the body was governed by four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
Synonyms
14
3.3
A liquid the body makes, like blood, urine, or saliva
7
2.8
A liquid from the body of people and animals, for example blood, saliva or urine
A fluid found in a living body, like blood or saliva
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.3
A clear jelly that fills the space between the lens and the back of the eye
- Specialized
1
6.6
A clear watery fluid between the eye's front and lens that keeps eye shape and feeds the cornea
- Archaic
A style of comedy that people see as middle-class or working-class and less formal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Humor originally meant a body 'liquid' or 'moisture'. Long ago, doctors thought four body liquids controlled health and character, so each of those fluids was called a 'humor'.