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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant [syn: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: circa 1623 1. the quality or state of being sonorous ; resonance 2. a sonorous tone or speech

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sonority So*nor"i*ty, n. [L. sonoritas.] The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sonorities) The sonority of a sound is its deep, rich quality. (FORMAL) The lower strings contribute a splendid richness of sonority. N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl

Moby Thesaurus

allophone, alveolar, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, bassness, bilabial, cacuminal, cerebral, check, consonant, continuant, crescendo, deepness, dental, diphthong, dissimilation, epenthetic vowel, explosive, fullness, glide, glottal, glottalization, guttural, hollowness, intensity, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lingual, liquid, loudishness, loudness, lowness, manner of articulation, mellowness, modification, monophthong, morphophoneme, mute, nasal, occlusive, palatal, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phone, phoneme, plangency, plosive, prothetic vowel, resonance, retroflex, richness, segmental phoneme, semivowel, sonant, sonorousness, speech sound, stop, surd, surge, surge of sound, swell, swelling, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, transition sound, triphthong, velar, vibrancy, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, volume, vowel