hypergelasts

Updated: May 26, 2025

We have another class of men, who are pleased to consider themselves antagonists of the foregoing, and whom we may term hypergelasts; the excessive laughers, ever-laughing, who are as clappers of a bell, that may be rung by a breeze, a grimace; who are so loosely put together that a wink will shake them. ... C'est n'estimer rien qu'estioner tout le monde,

George Meredith - Complete Short Works of George Meredith

We have another class of men, who are pleased to consider themselves antagonists of the foregoing, and whom we may term hypergelasts; the excessive laughers, ever-laughing, who are as clappers of a bell, that may be rung by a breeze, a grimace; who are so loosely put together that a wink will shake them. . . . C'est n'estimer rien qu'estioner tout le monde,

George Meredith - An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit