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One who laughs loudly and immoderately.See Also: cachinnate, cachinnation
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cachinnator — See cachinnation. * * * … Universalium
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cachinnate — cachinnation, n. cachinnator, n. cachinnatory /kak euh neuh tawr ee, tohr ee, keuh kin euh /, adj. /kak euh nayt /, v.i., cachinnated, cachinnating. to laugh loudly or immoderately. [1815 25; < L cachinnatus (ptp. of cachinnare to laugh aloud,… … Universalium
cachinnation — noun Convulsive, loud laughter. 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. See Also: cachinnator … Wiktionary
agelast — noun one who never laughs; a mirthless person Ant: cachinnator, hypergelast … Wiktionary
hypergelast — noun someone who laughs excessively. America had become a laughing nation, a country of frivolists and hypergelasts, a culture dangerously out of control. Henry Jenkins; What Made Pistachio Nuts?; Columbia University Press; 1992. Syn: cachinnator … Wiktionary
