overloudnessn.
/ˌəʊvəˈlaʊdnəs/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈlaʊdnəs/ Excessive loudness; the fact or quality of being too loud.
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a1832 J. Bentham Fragm. on Govt. Pref. to ed. 2, in Wks. (1843) I. 253/2 Her voice..my fiddle had accompanied, as also her piano, on which she was a proficient. No complaint of overloudness there.
1879 Mind 4 31 If the same kind of stimulation, when excessive, caused the unpleasant sensations both of over-loudness and of discord, those who are able to experience one ought, under the appropriate conditions, to agree in experiencing the other.
1955 Sci. Amer. Apr. 85/1 To the Chinese.., over-loudness of the voice is most characteristically associated with anger and loss of self-control.
1995 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 14 Apr. f31 Instrumental imbalances, overloudness in the strings and undeveloped total-ensemble values in the orchestra often made this aggregation sound like an ad-hoc, not a veteran, musical body.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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