humor
n. C / Un. the quality of being funny or the ability to enjoy things that are funny. It is also used to describe someone's mood or state of mind.
n. the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech. In a physiological context, it refers to one of the four bodily fluids once thought to determine health and temperament.
He has a great sense of humor.
The speaker used self-deprecating humor to put the nervous audience at ease before starting the presentation.
While the modern audience appreciates the play's dry humor, medieval scholars focus on how the characters' temperaments align with the four classical humors of ancient medicine.
Uncountable when referring to the quality of being funny; countable when referring to the historical medical fluids.
He told a funny humorHe told a funny jokeHumor is the abstract quality or sense; a specific funny story is a 'joke'.