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phonoaesthetics

phonoaesthetics is the alternative form of phonaesthetics.

Meaning of phonaesthetics

Noun

phonaesthetics (uncountable)

  1. The study of phonaesthesia.
  2. The study of euphony.
  3. The aesthetics of a language's phonology, or the study or construction thereof.
    • Indeed, if there is anything at all to phonaesthetics, there must be some nonarbitariness to phonetic structure -- at least to people who have some phonaesthetic perceptions (as people on this list have admitted they have), if not to everyone.1999 December 3, Ed Heil <edheil@postmark.net>, “Re: The Conlang Instinct”, in Conlang mailing list, via listserv.brown.edu

Origin of phonoaesthetics

From phono- + aesthetics.

Questions about phonoaesthetics

What is phonoaesthetics the alternative form of?
Phonoaesthetics is the alternative form of phonaesthetics.

Words near phonoaesthetics in the dictionary

  1. phono-semantic compounds
  2. phono-semantic matching
  3. phono-semantic matchings
  4. phonoabsorption
  5. phonoaesthetic
  6. phonoaesthetics
  7. phonoarticulatory
  8. phonoaudiological
  9. phonoaudiologist
  10. phonoaudiologists
  11. phonoaudiology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phonoaesthetics (page history and authors); phonaesthetics (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.

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