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Animation vs Hilarity - What's the difference?

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Animation is a related term of hilarity.


As nouns the difference between animation and hilarity

is that animation is animation while hilarity is (uncountable) a great amount of amusement, usually accompanied by laughter.

animation

English

(wikipedia animation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
  • * 1647 , , Christ Mysticall; or the blessed union of Christ and his Members'', as edited and reprinted in Josiah Pratt (editor), ''The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. , Volume 8, C. Wittingham (1808), page 217:
  • * by the animation of the same soul quickening that whole frame.
  • (animation, in the sense of a cartoon) The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move in motion pictures or computer graphics.
  • The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness
    • He recited the story with great animation .
  • The condition of being animate or alive.
  • * Landor
    • Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation .
  • (linguistics) conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category
  • * 1992 , Samuel E. Martin, A Reference Grammar of Korean , page 291:
    • "The constraints are not so hard and fast that exceptional sentences do not occur. In particular animation and disanimation can temporarily suspend the system."

    Synonyms

    * (the act of breathing life into something ) vitalization, vivification, enlivenment * (the state of being lively ) airiness, ardor, buoyancy, earnestness, energy, enthusiasm, liveliness, promptitude, spirit, sprightliness, vivacity * (the condition of being alive ) life

    Derived terms

    (Animation) * deanimation * disanimation * reanimation * suspended animation

    Descendants

    * Japanese: ) (borrowed)

    Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -tion ----

    hilarity

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A great amount of amusement, usually accompanied by laughter.
  • (countable) Something that induces laughter.
  • * 1999 , Vincent Canby, Janet Maslin and Peter M. Nichols, The New York times guide to the best 1000 movies ever made ,
    • Think it not curious if we don't seem to be as sidesplittingly impressed with the hilarities in this picture as its promotion might lead you to expect. Hilarity is in it—hilarity at its best—as would be almost mandatory in any film with Miss Holliday.
  • * 2005 , Library journal , Volume 130, Issues 8-13, Page 122,
    • Many other Latin imports have become staples of our diet, like the burrito, which in Spanish means "little donkey." What other food-related hilarities are we missing out on?

    Synonyms

    * cheerfulness * buoyancy * delight * gaiety * glee * jauntiness * merriment * mirth

    Related terms

    * hilarious