Laughter
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
al-ḍaḥk · buffoon · burlesque · jester · jesting · joke · laugh · laughter · pleasantry · الضحك
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Laughter, given a wholly physiological derivation from pleasure through the relaxation of pores and the rise of vapour.
As for laughter, its cause is that when a man senses something pleasurable there arises in him a certain particular state in his soul, so that the pores of the body and of the liver slacken and loosen, and a vapour is driven out of them (1) toward the face;
Symposium
Comic performance and social laughter as a valued symposium activity.
The moment Philip heard the laughter he uncovered his head, and exhorting his spirit to be of good courage, in view of approaching engagements, he fell to eating again.
for since laughter has perished from the world, my business is ruined.
but on finding that he did not excite any laughter, he showed himself, for the time, considerably vexed.