hypergelast
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + γελαστής (gelastḗs, “laughter”), from γελάω (geláō, “I laugh”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithypergelast (plural hypergelasts)
- 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.