sonancen.
/ˈsəʊnəns/, U.S. /ˈsoʊnəns/ The quality of sounding; sound; (also) a particular sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > [noun] > sound > fact, faculty, or quality of sounding
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. ii. 35 Let the Trumpets sound The Tucket Sonuance [sic], and the Note to mount. View more context for this quotation
1638 T. Heywood Rape Lucrece (rev. ed.) sig. C If he chance to endure our tongues so much, As but to heare their sonance.
1859 L. F. Simpson Handbk. Dining iv. 57 When a keynote is struck, a practised ear discerns one or more sonances.
1892 G. Hake Mem. 80 Years 220 He did not look to musical sonance in his metre and his choice of words.
1920 Amer. Sugar Family 13 Nov. 25/1 A tin box which when shaken gave forth the musical sonance of shekels.
1963 L. Teal Art Saxophone Playing 55/2 Notice..the variance in intensity and how it affects the total sound, or ‘sonance’.
2013 Highlander (Riverside, Calif.) (Nexis) 12 Mar. (Arts & Entertainment section) 1 There are various speaker-panning tricks at work here, which makes it seem as if the sonance buzzes and zaps around inside the listener's head.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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