wittiness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

wittiness
    n 1: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity
         has the power to evoke laughter [syn: {wit}, {humor},
         {humour}, {witticism}, {wittiness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Wittiness \Wit"ti*ness\, n.
   The quality of being witty.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

23 Moby Thesaurus words for "wittiness":
      brilliance, cleverness, comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollery,
      drollness, facetiousness, funniness, humorousness, jocoseness,
      jocularity, joking, joshing, keen-wittedness, keenness,
      nimble-wittedness, pleasantry, pungency, quick-wittedness,
      saltiness, sharpness, smartness

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