humorism

Etymology

humor + -ism

noun

  1. (medicine, historical) The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.
  2. The manner or disposition of a humorist; humorousness.
    July 30, 1831, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Asgill, the French I expected to find the ravings of an enthusiast, or the sullen snarlings of an infidel; whereas I found the very soul of Swift–an intense half self-deceived humorism.

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