humours

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Editorial note

Real life doesn't have moments of humours for the families of the murdered left behind etc etc.

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Quick take

(uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.

noun

(medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.

noun

(uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for humours.

noun

(uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.

noun

(medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.

noun

(uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.

noun

(archaic or historical) Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.

Example sentences

Real life doesn't have moments of humours for the families of the murdered left behind etc etc.

The audio almost always gets integrated in to my dreams, and almost always in a highly entertaining and humours way.

They should spend their time productively, and cut up some cats for their humours.

And if you get put off by a humours article which you don't get the points on, you're doomed to failure anyway.

There was high levels of scepticism present right from the beginning with records of trials being dismissed due to mental illness and 'unbalanced humours'.

I'm sure smarter men than myself believed the world is flat, or that leeching drained bad humours, lacking as they did proper knowledge or even a proper way of reasoning.

There’s a lot of phrenology and humours type pseudoscience within these analysis.

Later medieval medicine was possibly in many ways worse - Roman and Greek ideas of the four humours were imported and applied as received truth.

We long ago gave up on the four humours theory.

We have had medical terms make it into this usage before: moron, hysterical, humourous (we're going all the way back to the four humours).

HN is a fickle beast, one I've quit several times for being down voted to oblivion for a humours but on topic, relevant and quite poignant comment.

The following theories of how the brain works have come and gone over time: 1.a hydraulic model of human intelligence, the idea that the flow of different fluids in the body – the ‘humours’ – accounted for both our physical and mental functioning 2.humans are complex machines and thinking arose from small mechanical motions in the brain 3.

Quote examples

I'll put it on the shelf next to Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences, the four hippocratic humours, "left-brain vs.

Read "witch" or "herbalist" or "evidence-based medical practitioner unwilling to go by fads and humours".

To me, the idea of big-bang 3am release clusterfucks after "testing phase" and "code freeze" feels as archaic as using leeches to drain foul humours from a diseased body.

There are plenty of other ways of characterising this - Ayurvedic medicine or the Humours - in fact, those are so effective that they've been taken by business coaches and turned into "colour personality types".