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Sonority

//səˈnɑɹɪti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being sonorous. countable, uncountable

    "Another quality that bothers me is Brendel's inconsistent sonority. The treble is hard and pingy; the midrange is weighed down with a booming bass."

  2. 2
    having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant wordnet
  3. 3
    Relative loudness (of a speech sound); degree of being sonorous. countable, uncountable

    "It can be seen that vowels have the highest sonority of all phonemes in English, with low vowels being even more sonorous than high vowels."

Etymology

From sonor(ous) + -ity, from French sonorité, from Latin sonōritās.

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