What's the difference between hilarious and hilarity?

Hilarious


Definition:

  • (a.) Mirthful; noisy; merry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ramzan Kadyrov is joined by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Hilary Swank at his birthday party in Grozny in 2011.
  • (2) Writers are being hired on new US shows on the basis of their consistently hilarious Twitter accounts (such as Alison Agosti and Bryan Donaldson for Seth Meyers) and where producers Stateside lead, ours are guaranteed to follow.
  • (3) Okay, that number 8 ranking isn’t incredibly impressive but it’s much better than, say, settling for a NIT bid and then (hilariously) losing in the first round .
  • (4) Specifically, the often under-reported fact that many of them are hilarious.
  • (5) And they kept coming … the hilarious Octodad: Dadliest Catch , the chilling psychological horror game Daylight , which again, uses procedural generation to create new environments (procedural content is another next-gen theme); and Galak-Z from 17bit Studios, described as an AI and physics-driven open-world action game.
  • (6) Peter Moffat (Criminal Justice) I had a meeting at the BBC yesterday with Ben Stephenson, Kate Harwood, Manda Levin and Hilary Salmon.
  • (7) Whereupon Madonna's PR guy Trevor Neilson (who doesn't seem to be too great at his job judging by the way in which a routine baby-hugging photo-op has descended into a hilarious international shitshow) hit back, giving quotes to The Globe and Mail reporter Geoffrey York.
  • (8) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
  • (9) Winterton used these acceptances to persuade others to climb aboard: “Andy is in, Hilary is in.” Corbyn was on the phone to Chuka Umunna, then shadow business secretary, who had been careful to brief that he was not going to immediately walk out but wait to see what Corbyn said on policy.
  • (10) But there will probably always be a rump that waves away terms like "human dignity" as so much leftwing blarney; who think foreigners are fundamentally different and are worth less, who think it's important to clean behind fridges, and furthermore, that women should be doing it; who think if they're ever caught out they can call it a joke, and that their joke will be hilarious.
  • (11) Corbyn then spoke to Hilary Benn and offered him the shadow foreign secretary position, even though Corbyn knew he was pro-Europe, pro-Nato and pro-Trident.
  • (12) Hilary was one of few senior MPs whose expenses claims were totally beyond reproach – no surprise there.
  • (13) Write what you know, the saying goes, and Marber did just that, painting a hilarious, unsentimental portrait of how men behave when they get together to compete.
  • (14) Most people still don’t know who Hilary Benn is, let alone that he made a well-regarded speech.
  • (15) It displayed his immense talent for impressions, had simple but hilarious observations and was able to appeal to a diverse audience without pandering or carpet N-bombing as a punchline.
  • (16) Hair colouring is one such example: as the great Nora Ephron wrote in her hilarious essay On Maintenance , "Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair any more is the secret upside of death," and ain't that the truth.
  • (17) How did Hilary Benn, Maria Eagle, Charles Falconer and Paul Kenny choose Trident as the totem of revolt?
  • (18) He has this hilarious, very dry sense of humour, and just before I left, I said to him, ‘So what do you think?’ And he typed out, ‘I wish you luck.’ And then, with this really cheeky twinkle in his eye, added, ‘But not too much.’” Demis Hassabis gives me his own disarming smile.
  • (19) It would be an epic, devastatingly hilarious battle on the scale of Godzilla and Mothra.
  • (20) A variety of sources, some of whom have been attributed as being ‘aides’ to Jeremy or those ‘close’ to the leader, have apparently stood up speculation that Hilary Benn, Rosie Winterton, Maria Eagle and me (amongst others) are all for the chop for not voting against extending military action from Iraq into Syria during the recent free vote in the Commons.

Hilarity


Definition:

  • (n.) Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of the patients with peripheral lung cancer lesions smaller than 2 cm who underwent surgery, 21% had peribronchial, hilar, or mediastinal lymph node metastasis.
  • (2) Two patients had hilar lymph node metastases, one of them had also involvement of pericardium.
  • (3) Among patients with N1 disease we observed more frequent hilar metastases in the more advanced tumors (p less than 0.05).
  • (4) After injection of HRP-WGA into the contralateral hippocampus 2% of hilar NPY-i neurons were retrogradely labeled and symmetric NPY-i synapses were found on the cell bodies and dendrites of unstained HRP-WGA labeled neurons.
  • (5) Her chest roentgenogram showed a moderate amount of pleural effusion in the left pleural cavity without infiltration in the lung fields and no evidence of swollen hilar or mediastinal lymphnodes.
  • (6) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
  • (7) In 17 patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma and intrahepatic bile duct dilatation, the relationships between lobar or segmental atrophy, compensatory hypertrophy, and patency of portal vein branches were evaluated with computed tomography (CT) and angiography.
  • (8) Thus, it was concluded that CDDP is very effective for patients with lung cancer and that CDDP administered by BAI is useful for hilar-type squamous cell carcinoma.
  • (9) The main finding is a hyperlucent lung with small hilar shadows on chest x-ray.
  • (10) The management team gets changed, amid much hilarity when a continental breakfast of croissants and fruit is brought in.
  • (11) Presence or absence of lung cancer and the presence and severity of silicosis of the parenchyma, pleura, and hilar glands were documented from necropsy reports.
  • (12) The earliest formed SSIR neurons, generated on E12 and E13, are preferentially distributed to the subiculum, those generated on E14 are most commonly observed throughout the CA1-CA3 fields of the hippocampus and SSIR neurons which become postmitotic on E15 are more heavily represented in the hilar region of the dentate gyrus than cells born at other stages of development.
  • (13) Hemorrhage, congestion, consolidation, edema and fibrin exudation were prominent in the hilar region of the lungs.
  • (14) Discordance in antigen expression between primary and metastatic lesions (ie, positive primary tumors with negative metastatic lesions and negative primary tumors with positive metastatic lesions) was observed in the following order of frequency: extrathoracic metastatic lesion, contralateral lung, mediastinal lymph node (N2), and ipsilateral peribronchial and hilar (N1) lymph nodes.
  • (15) The chest roentgenographic findings in Takayasu's arteritis include widening of the ascending aorta, contour irregularities of the descending aorta, arotic calcifications, pulmonary arterial changes, rib notching, and hilar lymphadenopathy.
  • (16) Eighty animals were divided into four equal groups: I--splenectomy, II--50% splenectomy with the upper half left in situ connected to the short gastric vessels, III--50% splenectomy with the lower half left in situ connected to the hilar vessels, and IV--splenectomy with implantation of splenic fragments.
  • (17) It was concluded that intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomy for unresectable hepatic hilar carcinoma, contributed to a temporary return to normal life, gave better results than external biliary drainage.
  • (18) Pleural lesions, bronchial ectasis and mediastinal and hilar lymph node changes could be diagnosed.
  • (19) Two patients with sarcoidosis involving pulmonary hilar lymph nodes developed the nephrotic syndrome.
  • (20) Twenty-five out of 33 patients with the lymph nodes metastases had hilar metastatic lymph nodes.