imitative harmony

noun

Definitions

  1. Onomatopoeia.

    • Primitive languages being founded on the direct imitation of natural sounds, necessarily abound in imitative harmony.
    • The chapter on "Sound" discussed completely and interestingly what is often called by the rather barbarous name onomatopoeia and for which I prefer imitative harmony.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for imitative harmony. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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