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stridency
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun stridency has 1 sense
- stridency(n = noun.attribute) shrillness, stridence - having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound; Array is a kind of quality, timber, timbre, tone
Derived form adjective strident1
THESAURUS
stridency
acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony, acuteness, arguteness, astringency, bite, bitterness, causticity, creakiness, edge, fierceness, grip, harshness, highness, keenness, mordacity, mordancy, pipingness, poignancy, point, reediness, rigor, roughness, screechiness, severity, sharpness, shrillness, sting, stridence, stridor, stridulousness, stringency, tartness, teeth, trenchancy, vehemence, violence, virulence
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