sonority
noun
- musical concept related to being sonorous
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /səˈnɑɹɪti/ / /səˈnɔːɹɪti/ / /səˈnɑɹəti/
noun
Etymology: From sonor(ous) + -ity, from French sonorité, from Latin sonōritās.
- The property of being sonorous.
“Another quality that bothers me is Brendel's inconsistent sonority. The treble is hard and pingy; the midrange is weighed down with a booming bass.”
- Relative loudness (of a speech sound); degree of being sonorous.
“It can be seen that vowels have the highest sonority of all phonemes in English, with low vowels being even more sonorous than high vowels.”