Hilarity

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Great merriment.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A great amount of amusement, usually accompanied by laughter.
  • n. Something that induces laughter.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Demonstrative mirth or merriment; gleeful exhilaration; social gaiety; jollity.
  • n. Synonyms Hilarity, Joy, Glee, Joviality; gaiety, exhilaration. Joy is not often used of the excitement or overflow of animal spirits, but is rather and almost distinctively an affection of the mind. Glee is a strong word for an acute or ecstatic pleasure that expresses itself in mirthfulness and other demonstrative signs of high spirits. Joviality is that feeling or character which, being itself gay, merry, or jolly, brings others into the same mood; the word is generally used in a good sense. Hilarity is more often, but not necessarily, used of mirth, laughter, or other signs of exhilaration exceeding the limits of reason or propriety. See animation, mirth, gladness, happiness.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. great merriment
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gaiety    merriment   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    exhilaration    joyousness    jollity    mirth    cheerfulness    glee    merriment    joviality    gayety    jauntiness   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Solidarity    Verity    barbarity    celerity    clarity    dexterity    disparity    familiarity    irregularity    parity   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    merriment    jollity    glee    gaiety    revelry    elation    gladness    exuberance    applause    frolic