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sibilances

sibilances is the plural of sibilance.

Meaning of sibilance

Noun

sibilance (countable and uncountable, plural sibilances)

  1. The quality of being sibilant: a hissing quality.
    • The Pet Shop Boys are yet another synth-pop duo, albeit one that is not quite out of the closet. […] In past interviews, however, they [the Pet Shop Boys] have referred to their sound as "specifically gay disco," and their lyrics have that certain queenly something that lead singer Neil Tennant...1990 December 23, Christopher Wittke, “Pop Goes 1990”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 23, page 9

Questions about sibilances

What is sibilances the plural of?
Sibilances is the plural of sibilance.

Words near sibilances in the dictionary

  1. Sibi
  2. Sibi Division
  3. sibia
  4. sibias
  5. sibilance
  6. sibilances
  7. sibilancies
  8. sibilancy
  9. sibilant
  10. sibilant rhonchi
  11. sibilant rhonchus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sibilances (page history and authors); sibilance (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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