laughability
Quality inviting mockery
Laughability is the quality of being laughable—worthy of laughter or ridicule.
The word almost always carries a dismissive tone, suggesting something is so absurd or inadequate that it deserves mockery rather than serious consideration.
The laughability of his excuse was obvious to everyone in the room.
It functions as the noun form of laughable, parallel to how credibility relates to credible.
Quality of being amusing
- humorousnessQuality of being funny
- comicalityAmusing or ludicrous nature
- hilariousnessExtreme amusement quality
- drollnessUnderstated comic quality
wittiness · jocularity · facetiousness · mirthfulness · whimsicality · clownishness · buffoonery · jokiness
Quality of being laughable
- ludicrousnessQuality of being laughable
- preposterousnessQuality of being ridiculous
- absurdnessIllogical or senseless quality
- farcicalityQuality of being ludicrous
nonsensicalness · outrageousness · bizarreness · incongruity · illogicality · silliness · zaniness · surreality
Contemptuous mockery
- scornHostile dismissive feeling
- ridiculeContemptuous mocking treatment
- contemptDisdainful disregard
- dismissivenessAttitude of casual disregard
sneering · jeering · taunting · belittlement · disdain · disrespect · lampooning · skewering
funniness
Quality of being amusing
- humorousnessQuality of being funny
- comicalityAmusing or ludicrous nature
- hilariousnessExtreme amusement quality
drollness · wittiness · jocularity · facetiousness · mirthfulness · whimsicality · clownishness · buffoonery · jokiness · levity
ridiculousness
Quality of being laughable
- ludicrousnessQuality of being laughable
- preposterousnessQuality of being ridiculous
- absurdnessIllogical or senseless quality
farcicality · nonsensicalness · outrageousness · bizarreness · incongruity · illogicality · silliness · zaniness · surreality · grotesqueness
derision
Contemptuous mockery
dismissiveness · sneering · jeering · taunting · belittlement · disdain · disrespect · lampooning · skewering · roasting
laughabilityseriousness
Earnest, weighty demeanor
solemnity · gravity · gravitas · earnestness · weightiness
laughabilitycredibility
Quality inspiring trust
plausibility · believability · viability · reasonableness · soundness
laugh, laughter, laughing, laughable, laughs, laughed, laugher, laughably, outlaughed