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scintillation of wit

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  • scintillation — [sint΄ l ā′shən] n. [L scintillatio] 1. the act of scintillating; sparkling 2. a spark; flash 3. a brilliant display of wit 4. Astron. the twinkling of the stars caused by density changes in the atmosphere 5. Nuclear Physics the flash of light… …   English World dictionary

  • Wit — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Wit >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 wit wit humor wittiness Sgm: N 1 attic wit attic wit attic salt Sgm: N 1 atticism atticism Sgm: N 1 salt salt esprit point …   English dictionary for students

  • wit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Cleverness Nouns 1. wit, wittiness; Atticism; salt; sense of humor, funny bone, esprit, point, fancy, whim, humor, drollery, pleasantry; comedy; jocularity, jocosity, jocoseness; levity, facetiousness;… …   English dictionary for students

  • scintillation — Synonyms and related words: aphorism, apothegm, black spot, blink, blinking, bloom, blooping, bon mot, boutade, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, conceit, coruscation, crack, definition, epigram, facetiae, firefly, flare, flash of wit …   Moby Thesaurus

  • scintillation — noun Date: circa 1623 1. an act or instance of scintillating; especially rapid changes in the brightness of a celestial body 2. a. a spark or flash emitted in scintillating b. a flash of light produced in a phosphor by an ionizing event 3. a… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Daryl Hine — (born 24 Feb 1936 in New Westminster, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet and translator. Contents 1 Life 2 Awards 3 Works 3.1 Poetry …   Wikipedia

  • pleasantry — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, affability, agile wit, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, amicability, aphorism, apothegm, badinage, banter, black humor, bliss, blissfulness, bon mot, boutade, bright idea, bright thought,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • repartee — Synonyms and related words: acknowledgment, answer, answering, antiphon, aphorism, apothegm, back answer, back talk, backchat, badinage, banter, bon mot, boutade, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, comeback, conceit, crack, echo,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • aphorism — Synonyms and related words: abridgment, adage, ana, analects, apothegm, axiom, bon mot, boutade, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, brocard, byword, catchword, collected sayings, conceit, crack, current saying, dictate, dictum, distich …   Moby Thesaurus

  • apothegm — Synonyms and related words: adage, ana, analects, aphorism, axiom, bon mot, boutade, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, brocard, byword, catchword, collected sayings, conceit, crack, current saying, dictate, dictum, distich, epigram,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • bon mot — Synonyms and related words: aphorism, apothegm, boutade, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, conceit, crack, epigram, facetiae, flash of wit, flight of wit, gibe, happy thought, mot, nasty crack, persiflage, play of wit, pleasantry, quip …   Moby Thesaurus

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