gargalesis

noun

1. Heavy tickling often leading to laughter.

   uncountable

   Pending a better nomenclature we suggest for the former the term knismesis and for the latter the term gargalesis, with the adjectives knismic and gargalic, hyperknismesis and hyper-gargalesis for excess, etc.

Where it comes from

From Ancient Greek γαργαλίζω (gargalízō, “tickle”) + -esis.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry gargalesis (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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