laughableness

English

Etymology

From laughable +‎ -ness.

Noun

laughableness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being laughable; ludicrousness.
   • 1889, Alfred Emerson, “On the Conception of Low Comedy in Aristophanes”, in The American Journal of Philology, volume 10, number 3, page 276:

     We obtain a true perception of the laughableness of this sort of buffoonery.

   • 1989, Richard F. Moorton Jr., “Rites of Passage in Aristophanes' Frogs”, in The American Journal of Philology, volume 84, number 4, page 317:

     They encounter Empousa, the comic monster, who reminds us in spite of her laughableness of the dangerousness of the other.

   • 2003, Perez Zagorin, “Looking for Pieter Bruegel”, in Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 64, number 1, page 89:

     Two sayings from Seneca speak of the laughableness of man's ambitions on an earth scarred by the wars of so many nations.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.