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Stridency

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being strident. countable, uncountable

    "In my judgment, this is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency."

  2. 2
    having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound wordnet

Etymology

From strident + -cy.

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