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cachinnation
/ ˌæɪˈԱɪʃə /
noun
raucous laughter
psychiatry inappropriate laughter, sometimes found in schizophrenia
Example Sentences
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.
Every episode of Friends is accompanied by the cachinnation of the dead.
Its extraordinary note, and insane and yet good-humoured prolonged and loud cachinnation is unique, and so is the appearance of the bird.
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.
The major looked at him, and gave way to a sepulchral cachinnation.
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