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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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Jun 30, 2018 · Old English brad "wide, not narrow," also "flat, open, extended," from Proto-Germanic *braidi- (source also of Old Frisian bred, Old Norse breiðr, Dutch breed, German breit, Gothic brouþs), which is of unknown origin.
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 meaning of HILARITY is boisterous merriment or laughter. How to use hilarity in a sentence.
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.
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noun [ U ] us / hɪˈler.ə.t̬i / uk / hɪˈlær.ə.ti / Add to word list. a situation in which people laugh very loudly and think something is very funny: What was all the hilarity about? Synonym. mirth literary. Compare. glee. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Humor & humorous. amusingly. bitingly. black humor. blackly. bone dry idiom.
