Most people are able to experience humour—be amused, smile or laugh at something funny (such as a pun or joke)—and thus are considered to have a sense of humour. The hypothetical person lacking a sense of humour would likely find the behaviour to be inexplicable, strange, or even irrational. HUMOUR definition: 1.

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the ability to find things funny, the way in which people see that some things are funny, or the…. Learn more. A humour is a liquid or fluent part of the body, comprehended in it, for the preservation of it; and is either innate or born with us, or adventitious and acquisite. Definition of humour noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

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