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sonorousness
son·o·rous S0563700 (sŏn′ər-əs, sō′nər-əs, sə-nôr′əs) adj. 1. Having or producing sound. 2. Having or producing a full, deep, or rich sound. 3. Impressive in style of speech: a sonorous oration. 4. (also sō′nər-əs) Produced in the manner of a sonorant.
[From Latin sonōrus, from sonor, sound, from sonāre, to sound; see swen- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
son′o·rous·ly adv. son′o·rous·ness n. Usage Note: Traditionally, sonorous was stressed on the second syllable, but the pronunciation with stress on the first syllable is now much more common in American English, with either a short o (sŏn′ər-əs) or a long o (sō′nər-əs). In our 2016 survey, a significant majority of the Usage Panel—64 percent—preferred (sŏn′ər-əs), while 26 percent preferred (sō′nər-əs) and only 9 percent of the Usage Panel preferred the traditional (sə-nôr′əs) pronunciation. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | sonorousness - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonantplangency, reverberance, sonority, vibrancy, ringing, resonancetimbre, tone, quality, timber - (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet" |
TranslationsMedicalSeesonoroussonorousness
Synonyms for sonorousnessnoun having the character of a loud deep soundSynonyms- plangency
- reverberance
- sonority
- vibrancy
- ringing
- resonance
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