cachinnation
noun
the act of cachinnating; loud or convulsive laughter.
cachinnations
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pluralof cachinnation.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Few are able to laugh what can be called laughing, but only sniff and titter from the throat outward, or at best produce some whiffling husky cachinnations as if they were laughing through wool.
From Manners and Social Usages by Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
She was under the influence of one of those extraordinary cachinnations that sometimes convulse our diaphragms, without our being able to tell why, and certainly without our being able to put a stop to them.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
In passing, the cachinnations of the laughing hyena are rather a series of high-voiced self-conscious titters than laughter.
From African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White
Tom at first felt inclined to quarrel with him, but a poke in the ribs from his messmate, and the word “humbug,” made him instead join in Desmond’s cachinnations.
From The Three Commanders by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
