risibility

His light-heartedness and risibility were often assumed to hide bitter resentment or boiling indignation.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first|Count Carlo Gozzi
And they were soon joined by Sir Sedley Clarendel, whose quaint conceits and remarks assisted the risibility of the scene.
Camilla|Fanny Burney
My "caubeen" especially excited the risibility of the merry boys who thronged the streets.
The Felon's Track|Michael Doheny
A passage which I can refer only to the erudition and risibility of our modern surgeons and anatomists.
Gilbertus Anglicus|Henry Ebenezer Handerson

I was noted, among my comrades, and not always to my advantage, for my absolutely ungovernable risibility.
Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth|George Brandes

British Dictionary definitions for risibility

risibility

/ (ˌrɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ) /

noun plural -ties

a tendency to laugh

hilarity; laughter

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