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Definition of Melodiousness
1. Noun. The property of having a melody.
Generic synonyms: Musicality, Musicalness
Derivative terms: Melodious, Melodious, Tuneful
Definition of Melodiousness
1. Noun. The property of being melodious. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Melodiousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melodiousness
Literary usage of Melodiousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Richard Wagner and the Music of the Future: History and Aesthetics by Francis Hueffer (1874)
"... the principle of absolute melodiousness, in which he had earned his greenest
laurels, and to which he was led by the bias of his peculiar gift more, ..."
2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"In the case of poetry, in so far as rhythm, ie the succession of measured sounds,
is considered as entering into the composition of it, melodiousness, ..."
3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"In Morris's poetry we may be content to mark its actual notes of simplicity and
sincerity, melodiousness and copiousness, and, after he had "found himself," ..."
4. Music (1893)
"... yet on this crumbling pedestal is enthroned a wondrous singing—the divine
melodiousness of the human voice gilds the lines, so lacking in intrinsic ..."
5. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"In Morris's poetry we may be content to mark its actual notes of simplicity and
sincerity, melodiousness and copiousness, and, after he had "found himself," ..."
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