humour

tendency of someone to point out and emphasize the comical nature of something (or the mental state that leads to this tendency)
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humour
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humour

Summary

humour is a tone[1]. humour draws 499 Wikipedia views per month (tone_work category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • humour's instance of is recorded as tone (work)[3].
  • humour's instance of is recorded as attitude[4].
  • humour's instance of is recorded as disposition[5].
  • humour's instance of is recorded as behavior[6].
  • humour's instance of is recorded as art movement[7].
  • humour is a type of communication[8].
  • humour's Commons category is recorded as Humor[9].
  • humour's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Humour[10].
  • humour's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Comedy[11].
  • humour's described by source is recorded as Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[12].
  • humour's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • humour's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • humour's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • humour's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[16].
  • humour's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[17].
  • humour's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18].
  • humour's described by source is recorded as Small Soviet Encyclopedia[19].
  • humour's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[20].
  • humour's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[21].
  • humour's different from is recorded as laughter[22].
  • humour's studied by is recorded as humor studies[23].
  • humour's practiced by is recorded as humorist[24].
  • humour's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[25].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include tone (work)[3], attitude[4], disposition[5], behavior[6], and art movement[7]. humour is a type of communication[8].

Why It Matters

humour draws 499 Wikipedia views per month (tone_work category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] humour has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] humour is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Q87326411. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from laughter
    Local thumb
    Subclass of communication
    Instance of
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