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sonorousness

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sonorous  \So*no"rous\,  a.  [L.  sonorus,  fr  sonor,  -oris,  a 
  sound,  akin  to  sonus  a  sound.  See  {Sound}.] 
  1.  Giving  sound  when  struck;  resonant;  as  sonorous  metals. 
 
  2.  Loud-sounding;  giving  a  clear  or  loud  sound;  as  a 
  sonorous  voice. 
 
  3.  Yielding  sound;  characterized  by  sound;  vocal;  sonant;  as 
  the  vowels  are  sonorous. 
 
  4.  Impressive  in  sound;  high-sounding. 
 
  The  Italian  opera,  amidst  all  the  meanness  and 
  familiarty  of  the  thoughts,  has  something  beautiful 
  and  sonorous  in  the  expression.  --Addison. 
 
  There  is  nothing  of  the  artificial  Johnsonian 
  balance  in  his  style.  It  is  as  often  marked  by  a 
  pregnant  brevity  as  by  a  sonorous  amplitude.  --E. 
  Everett. 
 
  5.  (Med.)  Sonant;  vibrant;  hence  of  sounds  produced  in  a 
  cavity,  deep-toned;  as  sonorous  rhonchi. 
 
  {Sonorous  figures}  (Physics),  figures  formed  by  the 
  vibrations  of  a  substance  capable  of  emitting  a  musical 
  tone,  as  when  the  bow  of  a  violin  is  drawn  along  the  edge 
  of  a  piece  of  glass  or  metal  on  which  sand  is  strewed,  and 
  the  sand  arranges  itself  in  figures  according  to  the 
  musical  tone.  Called  also  {acoustic  figures}. 
 
  {Sonorous  tumor}  (Med.),  a  tumor  which  emits  a  clear, 
  resonant  sound  on  percussion.  --  {So*no"rous*ly},  adv  -- 
  {So*no"rous*ness},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sonorousness 
  n  :  having  the  character  of  a  loud  deep  sound  [syn:  {plangency}, 
  {resonance},  {reverberance},  {ringing},  {sonority},  {vibrancy}]




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