sonorousness

son·o·rous  (snr-s, s-nôr-, -nr-)

adj.

1. Having or producing sound.

2. Having or producing a full, deep, or rich sound.

3. Impressive in style of speech: a sonorous oration.

4. also (snr-s) Produced in the manner of a sonorant.

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[From Latin sonrus, from sonor, sound, from sonre, to sound; see swen- in Indo-European roots.]

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sono·rous·ly adv.

sono·rous·ness n.

Usage Note: The older pronunciation of sonorous has stress on the second syllable. As a recent survey indicates, however, the variant pronunciation with stress on the first syllable is now much more common in American English. In this survey, 84 percent of the Usage Panel gave (snr-s) as their pronunciation, and only 16 percent gave (s-nôrs) or (s-nrs). Two linguists on the Panel noted that whereas they stress the first syllable, they pronounce it with a long (o), as (snr-s).

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

sonorousness - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant plangency, reverberance, sonority, 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

sonorousness [ˈsɒnərəsnɪs] N → sonoridad f

sonorousness

n → Klangfülle f