hypergelast

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + γελαστής (gelastḗs, “laugher”), from γελάω (geláō, “I laugh”).

Noun

hypergelast (plural hypergelasts)

1. someone who laughs excessively.
   • 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.

   Synonym: cachinnator

   Antonym: agelast