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.
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