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- mid-15c., from Latin hilaritatem (nominative hilaritas) "cheerfulness, gaiety, merriment," from hilaris "cheerful, merry," from Greek hilaros "cheerful, merry, joyous," related to hilaos "graceful, kindly," hilaskomai "to propitiate, appease, reconcile,"and probably from a suffixed form of a PIE root *selh- "reconcile" (source also of Latin solari "to comfort").
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Origin: The Latin word "hilaris" is believed to have originated from the Greek word "hilaros," which also means "cheerful." The Greeks used the word to describe the god Dionysus, who was known for his revelrous and merry nature.
HILARITY definition: 1. a situation in which people laugh very loudly and think something is very funny: 2. a situation…. Learn more.
Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘cheerfulness’): from French hilarité, from Latin hilaritas ‘cheerfulness, merriment’, from hilaris, from Greek hilaros ‘cheerful’.
The earliest known use of the noun hilarity is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for hilarity is from 1568, in the writing of Gilbert Skeyne, physician. hilarity is a borrowing from French.
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hilarity in American English. (hɪˈlærɪti, -ˈlɛər-, hai-) noun. 1. cheerfulness; merriment; mirthfulness. 2. boisterous gaiety or merriment. SYNONYMS 2. See mirth.
