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
The gay viscount laughed at his own conceit; the others joining him in the cachinnation.
From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne
A female form moving among the trees told me whence had come that unexpected and ill-timed cachinnation.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
Though kings may tumble, No howitzers can rumble, No sounds but cachinnation Can boom from Darling's Court.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 by Various
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