Word.ws English Dictionary

diminuendos

diminuendos is the plural of diminuendo.

Meaning of diminuendo

Noun

diminuendo (plural diminuendos)

  1. A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly
  2. A passage having this mark
  3. (figuratively) The gradual dying away of something.
    • 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...1988, Robert James Nelson, Willa Cather and France: In Search of the Lost Language, →ISBN, page 79

See all 5 meanings of diminuendo

Questions about diminuendos

What is diminuendos the plural of?
Diminuendos is the plural of diminuendo.

Words near diminuendos in the dictionary

  1. diminishment
  2. diminishments
  3. diminisht
  4. diminue
  5. diminuendo
  6. diminuendos
  7. diminuent
  8. diminuitive
  9. diminute
  10. diminuted
  11. diminutes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: diminuendos (page history and authors); diminuendo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “diminuendos.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/diminuendos. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.