facetiousness
Tongue-in-cheek manner
Facetiousness is the quality of treating serious matters with deliberately inappropriate humor, or being flippant when earnestness is expected.
It carries a slightly negative connotation—unlike wit or cleverness, facetiousness suggests the humor is unwelcome or ill-timed: His facetiousness during the meeting annoyed everyone.
The facetious person jokes when others want substance.
Humorous, playful manner
- levityLack of seriousness
- lightheartednessCheerful lack of worry
- playfulnessLighthearted, frisky spirit
- drolleryWhimsical, understated humor
mirth · merriment · banter · jesting · quipping · wisecracking · joshing · kidding
Irony used to mock
- satireMockery exposing vice
- sardonicGrimly mocking
- tongue-in-cheekHumorously not meant literally
- dry humorUnderstated, expressionless comedy
deadpan · parody · cynicism · insincerity · snark · archness · wryness · understatement
Quick, clever conversation
- wordplayVerbal wit techniques
- badinagePlayful, teasing conversation
- persiflageFlippant, teasing discourse
- railleryHumorous, affectionate teasing
pleasantry · cleverness · quick wit · bon mot · pun · riposte · rejoinder · retort
jocularity
Humorous, playful manner
- levityLack of seriousness
- lightheartednessCheerful lack of worry
- playfulnessLighthearted, frisky spirit
drollery · mirth · merriment · banter · jesting · quipping · wisecracking · joshing · kidding · teasing
sarcasm
Irony used to mock
- satireMockery exposing vice
- sardonicGrimly mocking
- tongue-in-cheekHumorously not meant literally
dry humor · deadpan · parody · cynicism · insincerity · snark · archness · wryness · understatement · overstatement
repartee
Quick, clever conversation
- wordplayVerbal wit techniques
- badinagePlayful, teasing conversation
- persiflageFlippant, teasing discourse
raillery · pleasantry · cleverness · quick wit · bon mot · pun · riposte · rejoinder · retort · esprit
ridicule
Contemptuous mocking treatment
taunt · jeer · sneer · scoff · lampoon · caricature · jibe · gibe · heckle · mimicry
- comedycomedy, jokes, humor, puns, sarcasm
- humorjoke, jokes, joking, comedy, comic
- comedy typesclown, satire, parody, farce, slapstick
- audacityboldness, brazenness, audacity, chutzpah, gall
- merrimentmirth, laugh, gaiety, merriment, chuckle
- Types of Humorsilliness, funniness, wittiness, corniness, zaniness
facetiousnessseriousness
Earnest, weighty demeanor
earnestness · sincerity · gravity · solemnity · solemnness
facetiousnessmoroseness
Ill-tempered gloominess
gloom · gloominess · melancholy · sadness · dejection