hypergelast

hypergelast
someone who laughs excessively.

"America had become a laughing nation, a country of frivolists and hypergelasts, a culture dangerously out of control." - Henry Jenkins; What Made Pistachio Nuts?; Columbia University Press; 1992.


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  • hypergelast — …   Useful english dictionary

  • cachinnator — noun One who laughs loudly and immoderately. Syn: hypergelast Ant: agelast See Also: cachinnate, cachinnation …   Wiktionary

  • agelast — noun one who never laughs; a mirthless person Ant: cachinnator, hypergelast …   Wiktionary

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