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laughter | American Dictionary

laughter
noun[ U ]
us/ˈlæf·tər/
the act or sound of laughing:
Laughter from the living room kept me awake past midnight.

Examples of laughter

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The laughter produced by this reading may not be merely the laughter of aggression, but also the laughter of assertion.
Such uses, though, were characteristically marked as different from the others by hesitation and laughter, especially among the four-year-olds.
Nevertheless, we cannot read this restorative laughter as a return to some pure game.
Human laughter would seem to require the obliteration of a something or somebody, not merely to be derided but to be laughed out of existence.
Why does music move us to tears or laughter?
The positive affect scale ranged from positive interest to squeals of laughter.
Activities disrupted very passive situations, prompted people into action, into relating with each other, producing laughter, silliness and even pride.
Although most laughter results from physical contact such as tickling, it also occurs during chasing play.
In other words, unlike the norm for humans, chimpanzees breathe in and out as they produce a breathy, panting laughter.
As in speech, humans modulate an outward breath to produce the sounds of laughter.
The characteristics of laughter in chimpanzees point to a critical constraint on the evolution of speech and language in the great apes.
Essential insights come from the comparative analysis of laughter.
She judged it 'absolutely impossible: there were six different types of laughter in a row', but nevertheless did what she could.
The strength of the work lies in historically reconstructing the gestural languages of laughter and weeping as conventional stage business.
However, her opposition is embedded in laughter, and we can see the other two girls disattending to her objection.
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