: the ability or inclination to laugh—often used in plural
our risibilities support us as we skim over the surface of a deep issue J. A. Pike
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebSetting aside the thermostat narrative’s innate risibility, it withers when brought within ten yards of the facts. Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 18 July 2022 His great talent was to take tiny grains of information in reports and proposals, repackage them as official European policy and present them as part of a broad narrative about Brussels’s risibility. Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 30 June 2016