'Sonority' definitions:
Definition of 'sonority'
(from WordNet)
noun
Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant [syn: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy]
Definition of 'Sonority'
From: GCIDE
- Sonority \So*nor"i*ty\, n. [L. sonoritas.] The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sonority'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilation,
- bassness,
- bilabial,
- cacuminal,
- cerebral,
- check,
- consonant,
- continuant,
- crescendo,
- deepness,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilation,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- fullness,
- glide,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- hollowness,
- intensity,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- loudishness,
- loudness,
- lowness,
- manner of articulation,
- mellowness,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- nasal,
- occlusive,
- palatal,
- parasitic vowel,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- plangency,
- plosive,
- prothetic vowel,
- resonance,
- retroflex,
- richness,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- sonant,
- sonorousness,
- speech sound,
- stop,
- surd,
- surge,
- surge of sound,
- swell,
- swelling,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- velar,
- vibrancy,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- volume,
- vowel