Hypergelast

//ˌhaɪpəɹd͡ʒəˈlæst// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who laughs excessively.

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

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cachinnator

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

Etymology

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

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