clownishness
11clownery — noun (plural eries) Date: 1589 clownish behavior or an instance of clownishness ; buffoonery …
12clownish — adjective Date: 1563 resembling or befitting a clown (as in ignorance and lack of sophistication) Synonyms: see boorish • clownishly adverb • clownishness noun …
13Augustan prose — is somewhat ill defined, as the definition of Augustan relies primarily upon changes in taste in poetry. However, the general time represented by Augustan literature saw a rise in prose writing as high literature. The essay, satire, and dialogue… …
14List of fictional works in Gargantua and Pantagruel — The following is a List of fictional books in Gargantua and Pantagruel . This is not a list of the five novels that make up Gargantua and Pantagruel , but rather a list of invented or imaginary books that are mentioned or discussed by characters… …
15clown — clownish, adj. clownishly, adv. clownishness, n. /klown/, n. 1. a comic performer, as in a circus, theatrical production, or the like, who wears an outlandish costume and makeup and entertains by pantomiming common situations or actions in… …
16banter — Synonyms and related words: backchat, badinage, beard, blandish, blarney, booing, brave, buffoonery, cajole, catcalling, chaff, chaffing, challenge, chitchat, clownishness, con, dare, defy, deride, derision, exchange, face, fleering, flippancy,… …
17buffoonery — Synonyms and related words: acting, asininity, banter, battiness, brainlessness, business, characterization, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, desipience, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolery,… …
18eccentricity — Synonyms and related words: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, absurdity, absurdness, amorphism, animus, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, aptitude, arrhythmia, asininity, battiness, bent, bias, bizarreness, bizarrerie,… …
19fatuity — Synonyms and related words: absurdity, aimlessness, asininity, battiness, blank mind, blankmindedness, blankness, bootlessness, brainlessness, buffoonery, calm of mind, clownishness, counterproductiveness, counterproductivity, crackpottedness,… …
20folly — Synonyms and related words: absurdity, absurdness, act of folly, asininity, battiness, blunder, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, daftness, desipience, dottiness, dumb trick, dumbness,… …
