Definition of Melodiousness

1. Noun. The property of having a melody.

Exact synonyms: Tunefulness
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

melodic minor scales
melodic phrase
melodic theme
melodica
melodically
melodicas
melodicism
melodics
melodidymus
melodies
melodiograph
melodion
melodions
melodious
melodiously
melodiousness (current term)
melodiousnesses
melodise
melodised
melodises
melodising
melodist
melodists
melodize
melodized
melodizer
melodizers
melodizes
melodizing
melodrama

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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