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shrillness

noun

Etymology

From shrill + -ness.

  1. inherited from sċill — “sonorous sounding”
  2. inherited from schrille
  3. suffixed as shrillness — “shrill + ness”

Definitions

  1. The property of being shrill.

    • The shrillness of her voice made people's ears hurt.

  2. The result or product of being shrill.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shrillness. 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