euphony
noun/ˈjuːfəni/
Etymology
From French euphonie, from Ancient Greek εὐφωνία (euphōnía), from εὐ- (eu-, prefix meaning ‘good, well’) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound; (human) voice; discourse, speech”) (from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, speak”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). The English word is analysable as eu- + -phony.
Definitions
A pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.
- When I hear you speak, I hear beautiful euphony.
- Mandalay. In the name there was a euphony which beckoned to the imagination, yet this was the bitter, withered reality.
The tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation.
The neighborhood
- synonymconcord
- synonymconsonance
- synonymeuphonism
- synonymeuphony
- synonymharmony
- synonymunisonance
- antonymcacophony
- neighborideophone
- neighborphonaesthesia
- neighboreuphonious
- neighbororder
- neighborsound
- neighbormelody
- neighborsymphony
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for euphony. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA