Usually means: Loud, uncontrollable laughter or cackling.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. cachinnation: Merriam-Webster
  2. cachinnation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cachinnation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cachinnation: Vocabulary.com
  5. cachinnation: Wordnik
  6. cachinnation: Wiktionary
  7. Cachinnation, cachinnation: Dictionary.com
  8. Cachinnation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. cachinnation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. cachinnation: Rhymezone
  11. cachinnation: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  12. Cachinnation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. cachinnation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. cachinnation: FreeDictionary.org
  15. cachinnation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. cachinnation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Cachinnation: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. cachinnation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cachinnation: A Word A Day
  2. cachinnation: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cachinnation)

▸ noun:  Loud, convulsive laughter.

Similar:
cackling, conniption, guffawing, chuckle, kink, giggle, charivari, clangour, clampering, chortling, more...

Opposite:
sobbing, crying, weeping, whimpering

Adjectives:
dry, sharp, sardonic, loud, husky, own, shrill, such, unusual, single, short

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Similar:
cackling, conniption, guffawing, chuckle, kink, giggle, charivari, clangour, clampering, chortling, more...

Opposite:
sobbing, crying, weeping, whimpering

Adjectives:
dry, sharp, sardonic, loud, husky, own, shrill, such, unusual, single, short



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