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Slapstick vs Laughter - What's the difference?

slapstick | laughter |

As nouns the difference between slapstick and laughter

is that slapstick is (uncountable) physical comedy, eg slipping on a banana peel, exaggeratedly losing balance, walking into walls etc while laughter is the sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.

slapstick

English

(wikipedia slapstick)

Noun

  • (uncountable) physical comedy, e.g. slipping on a banana peel, exaggeratedly losing balance, walking into walls etc.
  • (countable) a pair of sticks tied together at one end and used to create a slapping sound effect for (1)

    • Derived terms

    *slapsticker *slapstickery

    laughter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia laughter) (en-noun)
  • 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)
    • 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.
  • * (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
    • Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter .
  • (label) A reason for merriment.

    • Related terms

    * laugh