Mirth

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Mirth is merriment and gaiety accompanied with laughter; jollity and joviality.

  • That which causes merriment.
  • It is enjoying the companionship of others in a form of happiness accompanied by laughter.
  • The origin is of Old English myrgth.
  • The term can be used both singular or plural.

1628: John Milton, L'Allegro

1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily, that, though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again obliged to join him in his mirth.

1922: James Joyce, Ulysses

Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.

2006: The American Physiological Society

In a paper being presented in an American Physiological Society session at Experimental Biology 2006, Lee S. Berk of Loma Linda University, reports that not only is there real science and psychophysiology, but just the anticipation of the “mirthful laughter” involved in watching your favorite funny movie has some very surprising and significant neuroendocrine/hormone effects. Maybe Laughter Really Is The Best Medicine

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