Hilarity

Noun

 * 1)  A great amount of happiness, usually accompanied by laughter.
 * 2)  Something that induces laughter.
 * 3) * 1999, Vincent Canby, Janet Maslin and Peter M. Nichols, The New York times guide to the best 1000 movies ever made,
 * Think it not curious if we don't seem to be as sidesplittingly impressed with the hilarities in this picture as its promotion might lead you to expect. Hilarity is in it—hilarity at its best—as would be almost mandatory in any film with Miss Holliday.
 * 1) * 2005, Library journal, Volume 130, Issues 8-13, Page 122,
 * Many other Latin imports have become staples of our diet, like the burrito, which in Spanish means "little donkey." What other food-related hilarities are we missing out on?

Synonyms

 * cheerfulness
 * buoyancy
 * delight
 * gaiety
 * glee
 * jauntiness
 * merriment
 * mirth

Adjectives for Hilarity
audacious; mischievous; intense; reckless; increasing; delirious; unbecoming; misdirected.

Verbs for Hilarity
attempt—; conceal—; conduce to—; enliven to—; excite to—; feign—; flush with—; inspire—; overcome with—; provoke—; reduce—; season with—; spend in—; temper —; —brightens; —diverts; —fades; — flows; —palls; —pours from; —seizes; — solaces; —tires; —wanes; —wearies.

Thesaurus
Homeric laughter, absurdity, absurdness, amusement, belly laugh, bizarreness, bizarrerie, boff, boffola, boisterousness, burst of laughter, cachinnation, cackle, cheerfulness, chortle, chuckle, conviviality, convulsion, crow, drollery, drollness, eccentricity, elation, exhilaration, exuberance, fit of laughter, frivolity, fun, funniness, gaiety, gales of laughter, giggle, glee, gleefulness, guffaw, ha-ha, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, high glee, high spirits, hilariousness, ho-ho, horselaugh, humorousness, incongruity, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, laugh, laughability, laughing, laughter, levity, ludicrousness, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness, outburst of laughter, peal of laughter, pricelessness, quaintness, quizzicalness, revelry, richness, ridiculousness, risibility, roar of laughter, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, snicker, snigger, snort, tee-hee, the funny side, titter, vivacity, whimsicalness, wittiness, yuck, yuk-yuk

Etymology
From hilaritas, "cheerfulness", from adjective hilaris, "cheerful", ultimately from Greek, + noun of state suffix -tas.

Translations

 * Catalan: hilaritat
 * Manx: ard-ghennalys


 * Scottish Gaelic: sogan


 * Manx: ard-aittys


 * Romanian: râsete, ilaritate


 * : hilaritate
 * : hilarité
 * : hilariedade
 * : hilariedade

Related terms

 * hilarious