misogelast

Noun

1. One who hates laughter.
   • The phenomena presented by the misogelast, or laughter-hater; the agelast, or non-laugher; the gelast, who is the laugher himself, and the hypergelast, who is the laugher gone intemperate, are looked into, and as far as...
   • Analysts of humour no longer have to justify their endeavours by claiming to be battling against recognizable figures who refuse to laugh or who disdain the comic. No-one today wishes to be thought a misogelast, and...
   • Why were the Puritans such misogelasts? Why did they not only enjoin mourning but entreat the suppression of laughter? - 2007, Sammy Basu, “"A Little Discourse Pro & Con": Levelling Laughter and Its Puritan Criticism'”,...