laughableness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We obtain a true perception of the laughableness of this sort of buffoonery."
- "They encounter Empousa, the comic monster, who reminds us in spite of her laughableness of the dangerousness of the other."
- "Two sayings from Seneca speak of the laughableness of man's ambitions on an earth scarred by the wars of so many nations."
Etymology
Etymology tree English laughable Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English laughableness From laughable + -ness.