cachinnation
English
Etymology
From cachinnate + -ion
Noun
cachinnation (countable and uncountable, plural cachinnations)
- Loud, convulsive laughter.
- 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter V, in The Understanding Heart:
- His shrill, mirthless cachinnation followed Monica as she headed up-hill.
- 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.