Meaning of hypergelastic | Babel Free

Definitions

Laughing excessively.

literary, rare

Examples

“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.”

“He [Ogden Nash] is, of course, a great temographic historian; he can remind⟳ us, better than any other writer, what has griped us in our hideous and hellbound civilization. But he plunges the needle with such generous and hypergelastic opiate that even as we perish we bless his name⟳.”

“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.”

“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.”

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