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sonorities

sonorities is the plural of sonority.

Meaning of sonority

Noun

sonority (countable and uncountable, plural sonorities)

  1. The property of being sonorous.
    • 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.1979, High Fidelity Musical America, volume 29, number 2, page 127
  2. Relative loudness (of a speech sound); degree of being sonorous.
    • 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.2009, Ulrike Gut, Introduction to English Phonetics and Phonology, Bern: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 81

Questions about sonorities

What is sonorities the plural of?
Sonorities is the plural of sonority.

Words near sonorities in the dictionary

  1. sonoric
  2. sonoriety
  3. sonoriferous
  4. sonorific
  5. sonorisation
  6. sonorities
  7. sonority
  8. sonorization
  9. sonorizations
  10. sonorize
  11. sonorized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sonorities (page history and authors); sonority (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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