Sentence:  Some who have written on Utopia have treated it as `` a learned diversion of a learned world '' , `` a phantasy with which More amused himself '' , `` a holiday work , a spontaneous overflow of intellectual high spirits , a revel of <WSD>debate</WSD> , paradox , comedy and invention '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal