festering vs humour

humour vs festering

festering and humour both are nouns.

festering is not a verb while humour is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
festering	Yes	No	No	No
humour	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, humour is a hypernym of festering; that is, humour is a word with a broader meaning than festering:

festering: a fluid product of inflammation
humour: the liquid parts of the body

Other hypernyms of festering include bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, liquid body substance.

festering (noun)	humour (noun)
a fluid product of inflammation	the quality of being funny
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus	the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
	the liquid parts of the body
	(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
	a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
	a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling

festering (verb)	humour (verb)
	put into a good mood

Difference between festering and humour

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