[f. as prec. + -ITY.] Comical or comic quality; fact of being comical.
1783. Mad. D’Arblay, Diary, 17 Jan. Stories, that for humour and comicality I think unequalled.
1824. Hist. Gambling, II. 35. Another trick of his Grace … is worthy of record for its comicality.
1866. Dickens, Lett., 4 Sept. Much better than any amount … of mere comicality.
b. An instance of the comical; a comical thing.
c. 1774. Garrick, in Colman’s Posth. Lett. (1820), 301. If you intend to stand by ye London Journal, I will prepare some comicality for it.
1818. Southey, Lett., III. 100. His wife resigns herself with comical composure to all his comicalities.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., IV. xvi. ‘Don’t you think me a queer little comicality?’
1872. Black, Adv. Phaeton, xxi. 300. Wearing such comicalities of jackets.
