facetiousness
Usage examples:
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But the genuine humourist sees something in that feature itself, as nature shaped it, to excite his facetiousness
Mathilde Blind in "George Eliot". -
Beginning the old cumbrous facetiousness about her correspondence, he blurted out the true thoughts that he had begun to entertain.
W. B. Maxwell in "The Devil's Garden". -
As soon as Dale went to order his gig the clumsy facetiousness was renewed.
W. B. Maxwell in "The Devil's Garden". -
Mr. Ridgett continued talking in a tone of light facetiousness that seemed to cover a certain deprecating earnestness.
W. B. Maxwell in "The Devil's Garden".