HUMOUR

humor, humour, sense of humor, sense of humour

(noun) the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; “she didn’t appreciate my humor”; “you can’t survive in the army without a sense of humor”

humor, humour

(noun) the quality of being funny; “I fail to see the humor in it”

humor, humour

(noun) (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; “the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile”

wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness

(noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

temper, mood, humor, humour

(noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; “whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time”; “he was in a bad humor”

humor, humour

(verb) put into a good mood

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

humour (usually uncountable, plural humours) (British spelling)

(uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. [from the early 18th c.]

Synonyms: amusingness, comedy, comicality, wit

(uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.

Synonym: mood

(archaic or historical) Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.

Synonym: bodily fluid

(medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.

(obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture.