quality of being amusing or entertaining, comedy; ability to appreciate or express something amusing; mood, state of mind, disposition; body fluid (Physiology)
pamper, indulge, favor, oblige (also humour)
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Humors Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Noun
1. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
(synonym) wit, humour, witticism, wittiness
(hypernym) message, content, subject matter, substance
(hyponym) jeu d'esprit
(class) libation
2. 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"
(synonym) humour, sense of humor, sense of humour
(hypernym) playfulness, fun
3. 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"
(synonym) temper, mood, humour
(hypernym) feeling
(hyponym) sulk, sulkiness
(derivation) humour
4. the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
(synonym) humour
(hypernym) quality
5. (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"
(synonym) humour
(hypernym) body substance
(classification) physiology
6. the liquid parts of the body
(synonym) liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humour
(hypernym) body substance
(hyponym) aqueous humor, aqueous humour
Verb
1. put into a good mood
(synonym) humour
(hypernym) gratify, pander, indulge
(derivation) temper, mood, humour
Humors Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
Humors In medieval European medical thought, a fluid or juice, applied especially the four fluids -- blood, phlegm, choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black bile) -- which were thought to determine a person's health and temperament. This theory derived from classical sources. "These vital spirits and humors corresponded, however imperfectly, to the pranic fluids of ancient Hindu teaching -- considered to be both ethereal essences and physical humors. From early mediaeval times up to the recent present, medicine consistently taught that normal physical health in the human body was maintained when these vital spirits and humors were operating in equilibrium, and that disease and even death were products of their malfunctioning. The archaic ages were unanimous in their agreement on these points" {FSO 556}.
The four elemental qualities that make up the human body, historically comprising blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy. When they are in balance, health results; imbalance creates sickness.
Humors Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Humorism, or humoralism, is a now discredited theory of the makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers, positing that an excess or deficiency of any of four distinct bodily fluids in a person directly influences their temperament and health. From Hippocrates onward, the humoral theory was adopted by Greek, Roman and Islamic physicians, and became the most commonly held view of the human body among European physicians until the advent of modern medical research in the nineteenth century.
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