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stentorianness

stentorianness noun: the quality of being stentorian.

Noun

stentorianness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being stentorian.
    • I still walk about Paris, and am as far as ever from knowing it. But the slow unfolding of the secret of this most jealous and beautiful of capitals is part of its charm. Its elusiveness, its painted age, its haggard or its lovely air at dawn, its wisdom, its paradoxes, its elegance and its...1936, George Slocombe, “Paris”, in The Tumult and the Shouting: The Memoirs of George Slocombe, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, section IV, page 55
    • ‘If you are strong enough to take it, young man,’ she snarled in reply, her voice vibrant with unexpected stentorianness which startled her listener.1974, Obi B[enue] Egbuna, Emperor of the Sea and Other Stories (Fontana African Novels), London: Fontana, →ISBN, page 102

Origin of stentorianness

From stentorian + -ness.

Questions about stentorianness

What does stentorianness mean?
Stentorianness means the quality of being stentorian.
What part of speech is stentorianness?
Stentorianness is a noun.

Words near stentorianness in the dictionary

  1. stentless
  2. Stenton
  3. stentor
  4. stentorian
  5. stentorianly
  6. stentorianness
  7. stentorin
  8. stentorins
  9. stentorious
  10. stentoriously
  11. stentoriousness

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