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hilarity

[hi-lar-i-tee, -lair-, hahy-]

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noun

cheerfulness; merriment; mirthfulness.

boisterous gaiety or merriment.

Origin:
1560–70; earlier hilaritie < Latin hilaritās, equivalent to hilari(s) (see hilarious) + -tās -ty²

Related forms

hy·per·hi·lar·i·ty, noun

Synonyms
2. See mirth.

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Example Sentences

Years go by, nothing dims the hilarity of your comment on many things and the wisdom and kindness which informed it.

Allow me to recapture some of the hilarity of the search process now that it's behind me.

From hilarity to sobriety-though not of a poker-faced kind.

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Years go by, nothing dims the hilarity of your comment on many things and the wisdom and kindness which informed it.

Allow me to recapture some of the hilarity of the search process now that it's behind me.

From hilarity to sobriety-though not of a poker-faced kind.

And the drumstick was consumed to the tune of high hilarity.

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Together, their infamous humor provided us with endless hilarity.

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Hilarity and hi-jinks abound as they all try to figure out who is sleeping with whom.

It looks funny enough, but someone misplaced the hilarity.

It makes this go from amuse/bemusing to absolutely fabulous hilarity.

Being engineers, they continued with the videos anyway and hilarity ensued.

From the sidewalk, the woman squeezes the umbrella back through the doors as high hilarity reigns.

There are miracles and martyrdoms, bursts of cruelty and hilarity.

Everywhere you walked, you left a trail of glitter and hilarity.

When he caused hilarity once by falling off a horse, he rehearsed more such tumbles until he was black and blue.

Much hilarity ensues, but so does plenty of creativity.

The hilarity of some of the slip-ups gives this clash of tongues a silver lining.

His genially acerb colleagues lampoon him mercilessly, but he finds in their own folklore grounds for a measure of hilarity.

He brings vast reserves of quarrelsome, hairsplitting hilarity to the story of a man going mano a mano with his sweet little mom.

There is lots of blood and gore and hilarity ensues.

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The film's few moments of hilarity are no less welcome for being completely unintended.

And there were many other similar social and festive reunions, at which there was much convivality and hilarity.

Faulkner's postage stamp of depravity and grotesque hilarity.

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World English Dictionary

hilarity (hɪˈlærɪtɪ)

—n
	mirth and merriment; cheerfulness

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Word Origin & History

hilarity

mid-15c., from L. hilaritas (gen. hilaritatis) "cheerfulness, gaiety," from hilaris "cheerful, gay," from Gk. hilaros, related to hilaos "graceful, kindly." In ancient Rome, Hilaria (neut. pl. of hilaris) were a class of holidays, times of pomp and rejoicing; there were public ones in honor of Cybele

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at the spring equinoxes as well as private ones on the day of a marriage or a son's birth.

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