sonority n : having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant [syn: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, vibrancy]

English

Noun

sonority

1. The property of being sonorous.

Sonority may refer to:

• sound
• sonority hierarchy, a ranking of speech sounds (or phones) by amplitude

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