List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 423

SYNONYMS: wit, humor, sarcasm, irony.
These nouns are compared as they denote forms of expression that elicit amusement or laughter.

Wit implies intellectual keenness and the ability to perceive and express in a diverting, often pointed way analogies between essentially dissimilar things. All were amused by his biting wit.
Humor, on the other hand, suggests the faculty of recognizing what is amusing, comical, incongruous, or absurd and using it as the basis for expression: Humor is a good tool for relaxing someone.
Sarcasm is a form of caustic wit intended to wound or ridicule another: Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it.
Irony is a form of expression in which an intended meaning is the opposite of the literal meaning of the words used: It is an example of irony when scoundrels hide behind the law.