Hypergelastic

Quick meaning: Hypergelastic is an adjective meaning (literary, rare) Laughing excessively.

Meaning

(literary, rare) Laughing excessively.

Example Sentences

I am young. I cry out with youth. I sing young songs. My laughter is hypergelastic. It tumbles over tables and chairs.

I thought of [George] Meredith, and a lecture on him when he died, his doctrine of the hypergelastic, the laughter beyond mirth.

The Bible seems to refer to such a hypergelastic character in the saying of Ecclesiastes: "As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool.

When laughter becomes unbridled, especially when socio-cultural restraints do not apply, the whole musculature becomes involved. The face flushes, the eyes water, the hypergelastic bore may throw his limbs and trunk around, and indulge in contact gestures like elbow digging.

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