1) Gelophobia
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1) Cachinnation 2) Cheerfulness 3) Chortle 4) Chuckle 5) Delight 6) Giggle 7) Guffaw 8) Hahas 9) Horselaugh 10) Laugh 11) Mirth 12) Mockery 13) Snicker 14) Snigger 15) Snort 16) Titter
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1) Delight 2) Enjoyment 3) Exclusively Saxon word 4) Exclusively Anglo word 5) Glee 6) Hilarity 7) Hurt a leg playing in fits 8) Laugh 9) Manifestation of mirth 10) Mirth 11) Pleasure 12) Reaction to a good joke 13) Reaction to Duck Soup 14) The activity of laughing 15) The sound of laughing 16) Utterance
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- the sound of laughing
- the act of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth of scorn
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Friedrich Nietzsche distinguishes two different purposes for the use of laughter. In a positive sense, `man uses the comical as a therapy against the restraining jacket of logic morality and reason. He needs from time to time a harmless demotion from reason and hardship and in this sense laughter has a positive character for Nietzsche.` Laughter.....
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[Bergson book] Laughter is a collection of three essays by French philosopher Henri Bergson, first published in 1900. It was written in French, the original title is Le Rire. Essai sur la signification du comique (`Laughter, an essay on the meaning of the comic`). == Publication == The three essays were first published in the French review ...
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• (v. i.) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i.
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(from the article `comedy`) The French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859–1941) analyzed the dialectic of comedy in his essay `Laughter,` which deals directly with the spirit of ...
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(from the article `humour`) In all its many-splendoured varieties, humour can be simply defined as a type of stimulation that tends to elicit the laughter reflex. Spontaneous ... The analogy with laughter—which, in some views, is itself a species of aesthetic interest—introduces a concept without which there can be no serious ...
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A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, 'The act of laughter, which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, ...
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Laugh'ter noun [ Anglo-Saxon
hleahtor ; akin to Old High German
hlahtar , German
gelächter , Icelandic
hlātr , Danish
latter . See
Laugh ,
intransitive verb ] A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, partic...
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[
n] - the activity of laughing
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laugh, laughter, laughing 1. To express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements. 2. The act or sound of laughing; laughter. 3. Informally, somethin...
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noun the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn; `he enjoyed the laughter of the crowd`
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