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wittiness

American  
[wit-ee-nis] / ˈwɪt i nɪs /

noun

  1. the quality or condition of being amusingly clever.

    Creativity in advertising should convey a brand’s uniqueness rather than merely display the advertiser’s ingenuity and wittiness.

    Customers love the wittiness of the names of sandwiches and drinks on the menu.

Etymology

Origin of wittiness

witty ( def. ) + -ness ( def. )

Example Sentences

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“It’s the wittiness and it’s the material. You gotta do your homework, you gotta know everything about who you’re going after. Within reason, of course.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 10, 2023

Or from the Nobel laureate George Stigler, whose essay “The Intellectual and the Marketplace” would have leavened Bacevich’s book with something it lacks: wittiness.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2020

Moffat and Gatiss found a way to take often-used and referenced characters and make them feel fresh and new, employing a killer combination of wittiness, editing, and perhaps most importantly of all, casting.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2020

This is the manner of wittiness without the matter.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2017

I ran to my loft bubbling over with appreciation of the exceeding wittiness of my own joke, but on opening my door a cry of dismay escaped me.

From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)

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