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sound symbolisms

sound symbolisms is the plural of sound symbolism.

Meaning of sound symbolism

Noun

sound symbolism (countable and uncountable, plural sound symbolisms)

  1. Phonetic symbolism.
    Synonyms:
    mimologics, phonosemantics, ideophone, ideophonics, phonaesthesia, sound symbolics
  2. (more specifically) speech sound that is neither arbitrary with respect to meaning nor an onomatopoeia that imitates a real sound
  3. the property of such a sound or sequence of sounds

Questions about sound symbolisms

What is sound symbolisms the plural of?
Sound symbolisms is the plural of sound symbolism.

Words near sound symbolisms in the dictionary

  1. sound shift
  2. sound shifts
  3. sound stage
  4. sound stages
  5. sound symbolism
  6. sound symbolisms
  7. sound system
  8. sound systems
  9. sound table
  10. sound tables
  11. sound technician

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