What's the difference between humour and mirth?

Humour


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
  • (2) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
  • (3) It’s useless if we try and fight with them through force, so we try and fight with them through humour.” “There is a saying that laughing is the best form of medicine.
  • (4) This study shows that aqueous humour examination for toxoplasma antibodies is a valuable diagnostic tool in a selected group of posterior uveitis patients.
  • (5) The concentrations of several post mortem aqueous humour chemical constituents were compared with ante mortem serum chemical values in the horse.
  • (6) The cAMP level in aqueous humour also decreased, with an increase in cGMP level increased.
  • (7) How she would have enjoyed meeting up with people she hadn’t seen for years, and looking back with humour and affection.
  • (8) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.
  • (9) "In terms of targeting there are similarities [with Dave], it has continued to deliver outstanding numbers but it relies on a lot of UK specific humour.
  • (10) When we had a morning practice session, and some players were a bit sluggish, he would call them out to the middle of the pitch and shout: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!’ When I read this story about Leicester, I just started laughing because all those funny moments with him came rushing back into my head.” That Ranieri has a sense of humour is hardly new information.
  • (11) The popularity of "whom" humour tells us two things about the distinction between "who" and "whom".
  • (12) It was hypothesized that the body-symptoms are correlated to humour.
  • (13) They’re peculiarly British but the appeal of the humour and the ever-present message that good people always win is absolutely global.” “These films are a part of British culture and to be carrying on the legacy of [original Carry On writers] Norman Hudis and Talbot Rothwell is a thrill and a responsibility,” said Dawson.
  • (14) These findings, together with the morphological similarities between the rat and primate aqueous humour outflow pathways, particularly the presence of a single canal of Schlemm, suggest that the rat may be a valuable model for future studies of the normal and abnormal mechanisms of aqueous drainage.
  • (15) "It is not a likeable work," ran one unfavourable review, "containing little humour or tenderness or modesty.
  • (16) The only time I see him in even vague bad humour is when a wardrobe assistant tries to neaten a dancer's hair.
  • (17) Sometimes people think that I ... am surprising in that I laugh and use my sense of humour within my work.
  • (18) Yet, ultimately, the film honours Dengler's good humour, his resilience, his overwhelming desire to live; after describing the many horrendous tortures the Viet Cong inflicted on him, he shrugs and says: "They were always thinking up new things to do to me!"
  • (19) Whole-body autoradiography in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) after oral and intravenous administration of 3H-labelled aflatoxin B1 showed labelling of several extrahepatic tissues, such as the uveal melanin and the vitreous humour of the eyes, the trunk and head kidney, the olfactory rosettes and the pyloric caecae.
  • (20) And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.

Mirth


Definition:

  • (n.) Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity.
  • (n.) That which causes merriment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But the young Sontag could barely contain her mirth: "I just couldn't stop laughing," she says.
  • (2) She laughs raucously again, mirth appearing to be, incongruously, her way of acknowledging pain.
  • (3) Proving that laughter is infectious – and the best antidote – British actor Emma Watson showed Twitter solidarity with thousands of women who have posted mirthful pictures of themselves in defiance of a call by a Turkish politician for women to stop laughing in public.
  • (4) This was greeted with mirth in the courtroom but he was charged with insulting the president, an offence punishable by up to a year in prison.
  • (5) That, at least, is what many people have insisted from antiquity on – while prompting at the same time all kinds of counter-claims that other species share our expression of mirth (monkeys and, most recently, rats being the most common candidates, though there is one suggestion, in an ancient Jewish commentary, that for some reason Aristotle thought herons were laughers too).
  • (6) Anatomists may take an especial interest in the letters No 1903 to HERDER and No 1904 to CHARLOTTE v. STEIN (both dated the March 27, 1784) which demonstrate the discoverer's mirth in finding out the human os intermaxillare.
  • (7) Provoking MPs' schoolboy mirth at the hint of an innuendo to the female MP, the prime minister joked: "Maybe I should start all over again."
  • (8) My Twitter stream, largely metropolitan, explodes with mirth: this’ll take Farage down a peg or two!
  • (9) SEE YOU IN COURT There was much mirth on Twitter when judges in the ninth circuit court of appeals upheld a temporary restraining order on Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban on arrivals from seven Muslim-majority countries.
  • (10) An unfortunate camera angle left pundit Glenn Hoddle's tight trousers in full view, leading to endless mirth on Twitter.
  • (11) Herman Van Rompuy, a man whose very name seems to provoke mirth in anglocentric circles, is known for composing the occasional haiku .
  • (12) Humor measures assessed appreciation (including mirth, subjective ratings, and response sets), comprehension, and production, while competence measures included teacher ratings of classroom behavior, peer reputation, and achievement.
  • (13) He has a soft, almost hushed voice, glasses that press down on the tops of his ears, making them flop over like wings, and a frequent, mirthful smile.
  • (14) The news of Ramos’s remarks sparked mirth amongst the cybersecurity community, who began poking their own holes in the claims.
  • (15) The fact that this particular man has long been characterised as tremendously powerful only adds to the mirth.
  • (16) It is difficult to measure the effect of laughter and mirth on changing one's mindset, but in 12 months not a single instance of death of a child occurred resulting from diarrhea or malnutrition.
  • (17) A different order of difficulty across items, and a different profile of "mirth" responses to the items did, however, correlate with site of lesion.
  • (18) Gallingly, the elevation has also exposed him to the mirth of his old friend Richard Rogers , whose own life peerage he had previously enjoyed teasing.
  • (19) As Claudius said in Hamlet: “With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.” Weddings, to me, feel heavy with expectation, pregnant with emotion, saturated with hope, fear and hard-to-keep promises.
  • (20) To detect changes in these components during a mirthful laughter experience, the authors studied 10 healthy male subjects.