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noun pl. sonorities

quality, state, or instance of being sonorous; resonance

Origin: < Fr or LL: Fr sonorité < LL sonoritas

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noun pl. so·nor·i·ties
  1. The quality or state of being sonorous; resonance.
  2. A sound.
  3. Linguistics The degree to which a speech sound is like a vowel. Plosives have the least sonority and vowels have the most.

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