cachinnation

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From cachinnate +‎ -ion

[edit] Noun

cachinnation (plural cachinnations)

  1. Convulsive, loud laughter.
    • 1928, H. P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror,
      After midnight their shrill notes burst into a kind of pandemoniac cachinnation which filled all the countryside, and not until dawn did they finally quiet down.

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