cachinnation
Americannoun
noun
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raucous laughter
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psychiatry inappropriate laughter, sometimes found in schizophrenia
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Every episode of Friends is accompanied by the cachinnation of the dead.
From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2012
A vast deal of cachinnation ensues at his various predicaments in escaping these women, Hell-bent for matrimony.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was struck dumb with astonishment; seemed scarcely to believe his own senses, but looking round the house after an unusual silence, and seeing the audience serious and apparently attentive, he burst into a cachinnation.
From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by Caruthers, William Alexander
And the brute broke out into a hoarse laugh, till the rocks echoed his fiendish cachinnation.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne
He seemed to enjoy the fright he had given the maiden; for, after having ceased to speak, his gurgling cachinnation was continued.
From The White Squaw by Reid, Mayne
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