wittiness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of wittiness
Explanation
Your wittiness is your ability to be clever and make people laugh. If you're known for your wittiness, you'll probably get invited to a lot of parties. If someone is quick with a joke or a clever comment, you can describe them as witty — and this general characteristic is known as wittiness. Your brother's wittiness makes him popular with his friends, but it may sometimes get him in trouble at school. And the wittiness of the writing might also make an otherwise serious novel much more interesting to read.
Vocabulary lists containing wittiness
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
The “Can’t You See” crooner said he quickly developed a wittiness from needing to have his rebuttals on the ready whenever someone issued a remark about the war in his direction.
From Fox News ● Nov. 11, 2019
But the prettiness and wittiness are Betty's; do we not all know that?
From Love's Usuries by Louis Creswicke
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