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sonority

noun
/səˈnɑɹɪti/

Etymology

From sonor(ous) + -ity, from French sonorité, from Latin sonōritās.

  1. derived from sonōritās
  2. derived from sonorité

Definitions

  1. The property of being sonorous.

    • Another quality that bothers me is Brendel's inconsistent sonority. The treble is hard and pingy; the midrange is weighed down with a booming bass.

  2. Relative loudness (of a speech sound)

    Relative loudness (of a speech sound); degree of being sonorous.

    • It can be seen that vowels have the highest sonority of all phonemes in English, with low vowels being even more sonorous than high vowels.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sonority. 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