slapstick: alternatives and connections

Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.

The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necess…

That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and dete…

A similar covering for the foot and leg, made with very thick soles, to give an appearance of elevation to the stature; -- worn by tra…

The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.

Liberality in judging of men and their actions; a disposition which inclines men to put the best construction on the words and actions…

The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produce…

An actor or player in comedy.

A women who plays in comedy.

of Comedy

A dramatic sketch; a brief comedy.

Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.

Relating to comedy.

A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same…

That branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital, forces, and which…

A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and a…

A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merr…

Involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of physical phenomena; -- contrasted with associational.