different between ludicrousness vs drollery

English

Etymology

ludicrous +? -ness

Noun

ludicrousness (countable and uncountable, plural ludicrousnesses)

1. The state or quality of being ludicrous.
   • 1879, John McElroy, Andersonville, ch. 51,

     The full ludicrousness of the thing dawned upon me so forcibly that I forgot all about my excitement and scare, and laughed aloud.

Synonyms

• laughableness

English

Alternative forms

• drolerie (archaic)

Etymology

From French drôlerie, from drôle +? -erie; equivalent to droll +? -ery.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???l??i/

Noun

drollery (countable and uncountable, plural drolleries)

1. Comical quality.
   • 1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage, chapter 121:

     He found that Sally had a restrained, but keen, sense of the ridiculous, and she made remarks about the girls or the men who were set over them which amused him by their unexpected drollery.

2. Amusing behavior.
3. Something humorous, funny or comical.
4. (archaic) A puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.
5. A joke; a funny story.
6. A small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript.

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “drollery”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN