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screaming

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Also known as vociferation, scream, yell, shriek, hoot, holler, shout

alt=A yelling infant.|thumb|450x450px|A screaming infant.

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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Troponyms
  • As a phenomenon
  • In psychology
  • As focus of power
  • Screaming in pleasure
  • Screaming as a nascent language
  • Communication and language
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Music
  • Sound art
  • Cinema
  • Theater
  • Antonin Artaud
  • Performance art
  • Other aspects
  • Dialogue
  • Nature
  • Martial arts
  • Military
  • Audio level
  • Unicode
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

alt=A yelling infant.|thumb|450x450px|A screaming infant.

A scream (/skriːm/ ) is a loud/hard vocalization in which air is passed through the vocal cords with greater force than is used in regular or close-distance vocalisation. This can be performed by any creature possessing lungs, including humans.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “screaming” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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