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Diminuendo

//dɪˌmɪnjuːˈɛndəʊ// adj, adv, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    describing a passage having this mark
Adjective
  1. 1
    (music) gradually decreasing in volume wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    played in this style
Noun
  1. 1
    A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly
  2. 2
    (music) a gradual decrease in loudness wordnet
  3. 3
    A passage having this mark
  4. 4
    The gradual dying away of something. figuratively

    "Thus, in "Flavia and Her Artists" (1905), for example, a fiction of consonance in diminuendo, the French subtext states a set of harmonies (the young American returned from France) and cacophonies (the supercilious French art critic, Roux) shedding light on the main text with its own consonances of intergenerationsl friendship, marital loyalty, artistic pleasure, and joyful lesbianism."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.

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