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sonority
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sonority has 1 sense
- sonority(n = noun.attribute) plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, vibrancy - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant; Array is a kind of quality, timber, timbre, tone
Derived form adjective sonorous1
CIDE DICTIONARY
sonority, n. [L. sonoritas.].
The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
sonority
allophone, alveolar, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, bassness, bilabial, cacuminal, cerebral, check, consonant, continuant, crescendo, deepness, dental, diphthong, dissimilation, epenthetic vowel, explosive, fullness, glide, glottal, glottalization, guttural, hollowness, intensity, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lingual, liquid, loudishness, loudness, lowness, manner of articulation, mellowness, modification, monophthong, morphophoneme, mute, nasal, occlusive, palatal, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phone, phoneme, plangency, plosive, prothetic vowel, resonance, retroflex, richness, segmental phoneme, semivowel, sonant, sonorousness, speech sound, stop, surd, surge, surge of sound, swell, swelling, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, transition sound, triphthong, velar, vibrancy, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, volume, vowel
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