wittiness

/ˈwɪtɪnəs/

Your wittiness is your ability to be clever and make people laugh. If you're known for your wittiness, you'll probably get invited to a lot of parties.

If someone is quick with a joke or a clever comment, you can describe them as witty — and this general characteristic is known as wittiness. Your brother's wittiness makes him popular with his friends, but it may sometimes get him in trouble at school. And the wittiness of the writing might also make an otherwise serious novel much more interesting to read.

Definitions of wittiness

1. noun

   verbal skill or ingenuity that has the power to evoke laughter
   synonyms: humor, humour, wit, witticism

   types:

   jeu d'esprit

   a witty comment or writing

   bon mot, mot

   a clever remark

   esprit de l'escalier

   a witty remark that occurs to you too late

   bite, pungency

   wit having a sharp and caustic quality

   caustic remark, irony, sarcasm, satire

   witty language used to convey insults or scorn

   repartee

   adroitness and cleverness in reply

   gag, jape, jest, joke, laugh

   a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter

   caricature, imitation, impersonation

   a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect

   cartoon, sketch

   a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine

   fun, play, sport

   verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)

   ribaldry

   ribald humor

   topper

   an exceedingly good witticism that surpasses all that have gone before

   mock-heroic

   a satirical imitation of heroic verse

   backchat, banter, give-and-take, raillery

   light teasing repartee

   belly laugh, howler, riot, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow

   a joke that seems extremely funny

   blue joke, blue story, dirty joke, dirty story

   an indelicate joke

   ethnic joke

   a joke at the expense of some ethnic group

   funny, funny remark, funny story, good story

   an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line)

   in-joke

   a joke that is appreciated only by members of some particular group of people

   one-liner

   a very short joke or funny remark

   shaggy dog story

   a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness

   sick joke

   a joke in bad taste

   sight gag, visual joke

   a joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie)

   burlesque, charade, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty

   a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way

   jocosity, jocularity

   fun characterized by humor

   waggery, waggishness

   waggish behavior

   clowning, comedy, drollery, funniness

   a comic incident or series of incidents

   paronomasia, pun, punning, wordplay

   a humorous play on words

   cartoon strip, comic strip, funnies, strip

   a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book

   type of:

   content, message, subject matter, substance

   what a communication that is about something is about