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Definition of Sonorousness
1. Noun. Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant.
Generic synonyms: Quality, Timber, Timbre, Tone
Derivative terms: Plangent, Resonant, Resonate, Reverberant, Reverberate, Ring, Sonorous, Sonorous, Vibrate
Definition of Sonorousness
1. Noun. Sonority. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sonorousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sonorousness
Literary usage of Sonorousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aluminium: Its History, Occurrence, Properties, Metallurgy and Applications by Joseph William Richards (1896)
"sonorousness. Deville: "A very curious property, which aluminium shows the more
the purer it is, is its excessive sonorousness, so that a bar of it ..."
2. Aluminium: Its History, Occurrence, Properties, Metallurgy and Applications by Joseph William Richards (1890)
"sonorousness. Deville : A very curious property, which aluminium shows the more
the purer it is, is its excessive sonorousness, so that a bar of it ..."
3. Building Stones and Clay-products: A Handbook for Architects by Heinrich Ries (1912)
"sonorousness. If a good-sized piece of roofing slate of the usual thinness is
suspended and struck with some hard object it will emit a ring like ..."
4. Building Stones and Clay-products: A Handbook for Architects by Heinrich Ries (1912)
"sonorousness. If a good-sized piece of roofing slate of the usual thinness is
suspended and struck with some hard object it will emit a ring like ..."
5. Building Stones and Clay-products: A Handbook for Architects by Heinrich Ries (1912)
"sonorousness. If a good-sized piece of roofing slate of the usual thinness is
suspended and struck with some hard object it will emit a ring like ..."
6. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... dead-leaf As a general rule, the ductility of G. is much impaired by alloying
other metals with it, while its hardness and sonorousness are increased. ..."
7. A Manual of Metallurgy: Or Practical Treatise on the Chemistry of the Metals by John Arthur Phillips (1854)
"... and sonorousness are attributes of the harder metals only, and are more
conspicuous in some of their alloys than in the metals themselves. ..."
8. A Manual of Metallurgy; Or, A Practical Treatise on the Chemistry of Metals by John Arthur Phillips (1859)
"sonorousness are attributes of the harder metals only, and are more conspicuous
in some of their alloys than in the metals themselves. ..."
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