cachinnation
Americannoun
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cachinnations
plural
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 William Alexander Caruthers
At the end there was a general cachinnation.
From Rim o' the World by Anton Otto Fischer
A shrill, continued cachinnation, which, though human-like, could scarce be ascribed to aught human, save the laughter of a maniac.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid
They generate guffaws and giggles and snorts and chortles and cachinnations, whatever they are, and provoke pee-in-the-pants incontinence.
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2021
Every wild syllable was flung back like a shot from the surrounding hills, till the air seemed full of loons, all mingling their crazy cachinnations with the din of the chief performer.
From Wilderness Ways by Charles Copeland
Another perfect thing from this diverting piece, followed also by Homeric cachinnations, was the mock-serious apophthegm: "If a cloud is going to support a lady of substantial proportions, you must make it fairly solid."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 by Various
Their united cachinnations rang loudly over the lake—reverberating in repeated peals from the adjacent cliffs.
From The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid
Again he gave way, unchecked, to his exultant laugh, till the room rang with his fierce cachinnations.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
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