wittiness

[ wit-ee-nis ]

noun

1. the quality or condition of being amusingly clever:

   Creativity in advertising should convey a brand’s uniqueness rather than merely display the advertiser’s ingenuity and wittiness.

   Customers love the wittiness of the names of sandwiches and drinks on the menu.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wittiness¹

witty ( def ) + -ness ( def )

Example Sentences

The sweetness is always still wrapped in the self-centeredness and the wittiness and the jerk face stuff that I say.

From Salon

This magazine, in Turkish, is published by female cartoonists and tackles sexism and misogyny with wittiness and bravery.

From New York Times

Or from the Nobel laureate George Stigler, whose essay “The Intellectual and the Marketplace” would have leavened Bacevich’s book with something it lacks: wittiness.

From New York Times

Moffat and Gatiss found a way to take often-used and referenced characters and make them feel fresh and new, employing a killer combination of wittiness, editing, and perhaps most importantly of all, casting.

From Salon

The “Can’t You See” crooner said he quickly developed a wittiness from needing to have his rebuttals on the ready whenever someone issued a remark about the war in his direction.

From Fox News

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