1. (noun)temper, mood, humor, humour a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"
3. (noun)humor, humour (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"
4. (noun)liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour the liquidparts of the body
5. (noun)humor, humour the quality of beingfunny "I fail to see the humor in it"
6. (verb)humor, humour, sense of humor, sense of humour the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"
1. humour distinct from wit, and defined as "a warm, tender, fellow-feeling with all that exists," as "the sport of sensibility and, as it were, the playful, teasingfondness of a mother for a child" ... as "a sort of inversesublimity exalting into our affections what is below us,... warm and all-embracing as the sun."