sonority

so·nor·i·ty  (s-nôr-t, -nr-)

n. pl. so·nor·i·ties

1. The quality or state of being sonorous; resonance.

2. A sound.

3. Linguistics The degree to which a speech sound is like a vowel. Plosives have the least sonority and vowels have the most.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

sonority - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant plangency, reverberance, sonorousness, vibrancy, ringing, resonance timbre, tone, quality, timber - (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"

Translations

sonority [səˈnɒrɪtɪ] N → sonoridad f

sonority

n → Klangfülle f

sonority [səˈnɒrɪtɪ] n (frm) → sonorità f inv

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sonority [səˈnɒrɪtɪ] n (frm) → sonorità f inv