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witticism

noun

1 witticism

A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter.

synonyms: humor, humour, wit, wittiness.

Roget 842: wit, humor, wittiness; sense of humor; attic wit, attic salt; atticism; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery, pleasantry.    ... show more

Dutch: kwinkslag, geestigheid


Moby thesaurus: adage, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bon mot, boutade, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, byword, catchword, collected sayings, conceit, crack, current saying, dictate, dictum, distich ... show more.

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