hypergelast

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + γελαστής (gelastḗs, “laughter”), from γελάω (geláō, “I laugh”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌhaɪpəɹd͡ʒəˈlæst/
• Hyphenation: hy‧per‧ge‧last

Noun

hypergelast (plural hypergelasts)

1. Someone who laughs excessively.

   Synonym: cachinnator

   Antonym: agelast

   • 1992, Henry Jenkins, What Made Pistachio Nuts?, Columbia University Press:

     America had become a laughing nation, a country of frivolists and hypergelasts, a culture dangerously out of control.