katagelastic

comparative more katagelastic · superlative most katagelastic

1. rareShowing a predilection for mocking humor, that is, humor at the expense of others.

   Katagelastic people are, in short, jerks. They enjoy calling people out and mocking others.

   2018 October 19, Matt Davis, “Relationship hack: Why class clowns make better partners”, in Neuropsych

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   While gelotophobic individuals fear aggressive humor, katagelastic individuals, in contrast, enjoy such humor[…]

   2019, Vanja Kljajevic, “Neurology of Humor”, in T. Shackelford, V. Weekes-Shackelford, editors, Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Springer

   His request, however, is followed by a mock-hidden laugh of the manager and then seconds later – the obsequious, toadying laugh of the rest of the employees[…]The laugh also creates a katagelastic atmosphere in the office, uncomfortable for the protagonist.

   2020, Evelina Kazakevičiūtė, ‘It’s a sad and beautiful world’: The Poststructuralist Conception of Communication and Jim Jarmusch’s Films (PhD thesis), page 147

   Synonyms: mocking, ridiculing