A mode of inducing tonic laughter.

To ruin a tragedy you must make it capable of inducing helpless laughter.

This type of tickling generally does not induce laughter and is often accompanied by an itching sensation.

The grotesque and ugly hybrid supposedly induced laughter, thereby driving evil away.

More often than not, the collection seems intended to induce laughter.

As hilarious and as relentlessly inventive as Sedaris is, her prescriptions are often more likely to induce laughter or awe than intimacy.

In another, you're trying to induce laughter.

Generally, the point of off-color humor is to induce laughter by evoking a feeling of shock and surprise in the comedian's audience.

But that was enough to induce ribald laughter among the auto workers and other Americans who heard the tale retold in coffee-break jokes.