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cachinnation

/ ˌkækɪˈneɪʃən /

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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Example Sentences

Then, upon a given signal, they threw their arms around the orphan and hugged him, while a violent cachinnation was heard.

It was quite tame and fearless, and used to make a loud chattering cachinnation.

The stoker laughed truculently, and Billy ventured upon a faint echo of the jeering cachinnation.

She is possessed with a laughing demon, and has been in a constant state of cachinnation the whole trip.

And Miss Jerusha indulged in a regular cachinnation for the first time that Richmond ever remembered to hear her.

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