WITTINESS Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

wittiness

noun

Definition of wittiness

as in whimsicality

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Recent Examples of wittiness D’heygere There’s no one who reads the room better than Stéphanie D’heygere — and adds plenty of wittiness and humor to it. — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019

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Noun

One of the ironies of the facility was that, for an ICE jail, actual ICE officers were scarce.

— Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
The irony here is that if the referee had not shown a yellow card to Paredes, the incident could not have been reviewed on the merits of Embolo’s dive alone.

— Stuart James, New York Times, 12 July 2026

Definition of irony

Noun

The only thing this movie takes seriously is its wholehearted commitment to absurdity.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Mason has a field day riffing on the absurdities of contemporary academic culture and flagging the divides that separate what are often called coastal elites at the western and eastern edges of the country.

— Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2026

Definition of absurdity

Noun

The resurgence of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s long-running shock comedy and cultural satire is, at the very least, reflective of the actual show’s cultural footprint in the past year.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 10 July 2026
But the show is not a parody; where Hollis’ Martha Stewart domesticity could easily tip into satire, it’s treated as a legitimate trauma response to losing her nuclear family at an early age.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 9 July 2026

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