Laughter vs Sprightliness - What's the difference?
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The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
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A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
* (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
(label) A reason for merriment.
Laughter is a related term of sprightliness.
As nouns the difference between laughter and sprightliness
is that laughter is the sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound while sprightliness is the property of being sprightly.laughter
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia laughter) (en-noun)- The act of laughter , which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves.
- Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter .
