cachinnation
Americannoun
noun
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raucous laughter
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psychiatry inappropriate laughter, sometimes found in schizophrenia
Example Sentences
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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
Snarls, and yaps, and yelps, and squawks, and guffaws, and sometimes the cachinnation and crow of cocks, broke upon the clear air.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir
Then right under me commenced a vehement rasping and scratching in the floor, accompanied by continuous groans and cachinnation.
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)
Clive laughed till he sank down; and Bob, flinging himself upon the ground in a perfect paroxysm, rolled over and over, and kicked, and yelled, and fairly howled in one prolonged and uproarious cachinnation.
From Among the Brigands by De Mille, James
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