sonority
/səˈnɑɹɪti/
sonority noun: the property of being sonorous.
Noun
sonority (countable and uncountable, plural sonorities)
- 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
- 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
sonority meaning in Tamil
sonority in Tamil
- இசைமைத்திறன்
Forms of sonority
| plural | sonorities |
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Origin of sonority
From sonor(ous) + -ity, from French sonorité, from Latin sonōritās.
Questions about sonority
- What does sonority mean?
- Sonority means the property of being sonorous.
- What is sonority in Tamil?
- Sonority in Tamil is இசைமைத்திறன். See Sonority meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sonority?
- Sonority is a noun.
- How do you pronounce sonority?
- Sonority is pronounced /səˈnɑɹɪti/.
- What is the plural of sonority?
- The plural of sonority is sonorities.
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