witticism

Other forms of witticism

plural

witticisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about witticism

What does witticism mean?

witticism means "a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter".

How many syllables are in witticism?

witticism has 3 syllables and divides as wit-ti-cism under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for witticism?

Close synonyms include wit, humor, humour, wittiness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is witticism a common word?

witticism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.