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sonority

noun

  1. musical concept related to being sonorous
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /səˈnɑɹɪti/ / /səˈnɔːɹɪti/ / /səˈnɑɹəti/

noun

Etymology: From sonor(ous) + -ity, from French sonorité, from Latin sonōritās.

  1. 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.”

  2. 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.”