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
“Ha, ha, ha!” he continued, in still louder cachinnation.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne
He had actually to lie down on the greensward to enjoy his prolonged cachinnation.
From Life of Charles Darwin by Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas)
He jumped off the ground half-a-dozen times to thrice his own height, giving a succession of little joyous yelps that resembled a human cachinnation far more than any sounds of canine origin or utterance.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various
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