[f. FARCICAL a.1 + -ITY.] Farcical quality; an instance of this.
1849. Thackeray, Lett., 3 Sept. I … laughed so as to make myself an object in the stalls; but it was at pure farcicality, not at wit.
1865. Daily Tel., 29 May. The farcicalities of the actors were … tragically interrupted.
1883. Pall Mall G., 14 Dec., 3/1. An extreme the farcicality of which shocks even reverent sceptics.
1888. The Saturday Review, LXV. 9 June, 707/1. A mixture of what the outspoken last century would have calied cochonneries, of risky but pardonable farcicalities, and of sketches and impression-pieces, showing so much talent that one wonders why on earth the author should hang up forbidden fruit, and such dirty forbidden fruit, too, in his shop.
