stridencen.
/ˈstrʌɪdəns/ The fact of being strident.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > harshness and shrillness
stridulency1657
falsetto1774
stridency1865
stridence1890
1890 S. P. Thompson in Nature (1891) 15 Jan. 252/1 For compound tones corresponding to the whole series, odd and even, there is, in every case, minimum intensity, brilliancy, and stridence with δ = 3/ 4, and maximum with δ = 1/ 4.
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