Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Amusive quality or effect; the quality of affording amusement.

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  • noun The state or quality of being amusing.

Etymologies

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From amusing +‎ -ness.

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Examples

  • Sean, your Flannophilic comment certainly does not lack of amusingness.

    Unnatural ‘preternaturally’, naturally 2009

  • There's sort of a natural amusingness about the situation which one doesn't have to play.

    Feeling Wrong for the Role, at First Amy Chozick 2011

  • For more amusingness readthe behind-the-scenes report and somecomments from people who think ImprovEverywhere are insulting what the Ghostbusters stand for.

    2010 June « Items of Interest 2010

  • A joke loses its amusingness if one is not going to tell it, and you are then able to think only of your Prayers and

    Stray Thoughts for Girls Lucy H. M. Soulsby

  • That is why downright emphasis on his amusingness, on any subtle man's amusingness, has claims to be forgiven.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

  • What do you think it effects as to character, amusingness, and unity with the plot of mistaken identity?

    Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies Charlotte Endymion Porter 1900

  • What I cannot indicate, however, is the lightness and freshness of them; and above all, their entire frankness and amusingness.

    The Child of the Dawn Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • Beauvoir, Alphonse Karr, Émile Souvestre, who, to no small extent individually and to a very great extent when taken in battalion, helped to conquer that supreme reputation for amusingness, for pastime, which the French novel has so long enjoyed throughout Europe.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • Not handsome, nor very amusing; but people think a great deal too much of amusingness now.

    The Mark Of Cain Andrew Lang 1878

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