humour vs festering

festering vs humour

humour and festering both are nouns.

humour is a verb but festering is not a verb.

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

As nouns, festering is a hyponym of humour; that is, festering is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than humour:

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

Other hyponyms of humour include aqueous humor, aqueous humour, vitreous body, vitreous humor, vitreous humour, endolymph, perilymph, ECF, extracellular fluid, intracellular fluid, juice, succus, karyolymph, milk, amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid, waters, blood, blood serum, serum, chyle, lymph, come, cum, ejaculate, seed, semen, seminal fluid, ink, secretion, black bile, melancholy, choler, yellow bile, lochia, ichor, purulence, pus, sanies, suppuration, cerebrospinal fluid, spinal fluid.

humour (noun)	festering (noun)
the quality of being funny	a fluid product of inflammation
the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous	(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
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

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

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