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cachinnation

/ ˌæɪˈԱɪʃə /

noun

  1. raucous laughter
  2. psychiatry inappropriate laughter, sometimes found in schizophrenia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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This is the miserably contrived cachinnation that nowadays follows us wherever we go, and we could be forgiven for taking it at once universally and personally.

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Every episode of Friends is accompanied by the cachinnation of the dead.

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Its extraordinary note, and insane and yet good-humoured prolonged and loud cachinnation is unique, and so is the appearance of the bird.

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The town-major gave vent to a grumbling cachinnation like the rattling of a skeleton in a cupboard, but no smile lit up his sinister countenance.

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The major looked at him, and gave way to a sepulchral cachinnation.

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