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Wit is a form of intelligent humour—the ability to say or write things that are clever and typically funny. Someone witty is a person who is skilled at making clever and funny remarks. Forms of wit include the quip, repartee, and wisecrack.
Forms
As in the wit of Dorothy Parker's set, the Algonquin Round Table, witty remarks may be intentionally cruel (as also in many epigrams), and perhaps more ingenious than funny.
A quip is an observation or saying that has some wit but perhaps descends into sarcasm, or otherwise is short of a point. A witticism also suggests the diminutive.
Repartee is the wit of the quick answer and capping comment: the snappy comeback and neat retort.
Metaphysical poetry as a style was prevalent in the time of English playwright William Shakespeare, who admonished pretension with the phrase "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit". It may combine word play with conceptual thinking, as a kind of verbal display requiring attention, without intending to be laugh-out-loud funny. Indeed wit in verse can be a thin disguise for more poignant feelings. English poet John Donne is the representative of this style.
Other uses
More generally, one's wits are one's intellectual powers of all types. Native wit—meaning the wits with which one is born—is closely synonymous with common sense. To live by one's wits is to be an opportunist, but not always of the scrupulous kind. To have one's wits about one is to be alert and capable of quick reasoning. To be at the end of one's wits ("I'm at wits' end") is to be immensely frustrated.
See also
Hartford Wits
New Oxford Wits
Oxford Wits
Wit (film)
Wit (play)
References
= Bibliography
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Jefferson, D. W. (1951). "Tristram Shandy and the Tradition of Learned Wit". Essays in Criticism. Vol. 1. pp. 225–49.- Source: WIT
Wit is a form of humour.
Wit or WIT may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Wit (play), a 1995 one-act play by American playwright Margaret Edson
Wit (film), a 2001 film directed based on the play
Wit Studio, a Japanese animation studio
Washington Improv Theater, in Washington, D.C., United States
Wellington Improvisation Troupe, in Wellington, New Zealand
Education
Walchand Institute of Technology, in Solapur, Maharashtra, India
Waterford Institute of Technology, in Waterford, Ireland
Wentworth Institute of Technology, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Wessex Institute of Technology, in Hampshire, United Kingdom
Western Institute of TAFE, in New South Wales, Australia
Wufeng Institute of Technology, in Chiayi, Taiwan
People
Wit Busza, physicist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Veit Stoss, artist known in Polish as Wit Stwosz
Antoni Wit (born 1944), Polish conductor
Dennis Wit (born 1951), American retired soccer player
Other uses
Wit, any of the five wits or senses in premodern psychology
WIT, NYSE symbol for Wipro, an Indian IT multinational company
Wit FM, a French radio station based in Bègles, near Bordeaux
Time zone in Indonesia:
Waktu Indonesia Timur (Eastern Indonesian Time), a time zone covering eastern Indonesia
Western Indonesian Time, abbreviated "WIT" in tz database
Witbier, a popular Belgian ale
Women in Touch, a women's discussion group in Zimbabwe
FC WIT Georgia, a football team in the country of Georgia
See also
de Wit (surname)
WITS (disambiguation)
Witt (disambiguation)
Wyt (disambiguation)
Wisecrack (disambiguation)
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