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Webster 1913 Edition
Sonority
So-nor′i-ty
,Noun.
[L.
sonoritas
.] The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.
Definition 2024
sonority
sonority
English
Noun
sonority (countable and uncountable, plural sonorities)
- The property of being sonorous.
- 1979, High Fidelity Musical America (volume 29, issue 2, page 127)
- 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.
- 1979, High Fidelity Musical America (volume 29, issue 2, page 127)