stridencyn.
/ˈstrʌɪdənsi/ The quality of being strident.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > harshness and shrillness
stridulency1657
falsetto1774
stridency1865
stridence1890
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [noun] > obstruent > spirant or continuant > fricative > quality
stridency1968
1865 Evening Standard 6 June A peculiar stridency characterised the voice of the assailant.
1883 W. Besant All in Garden Fair ii. i The piano..required now the most delicate fingering to keep down the stridency of age.
1968 N. Chomsky & M. Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 329 Stridency is a feature restricted to obstruent continuants and affricates.
1976 Word 27 220 This appearance of the Stridency distinction among Stops and Continuants evidently does not generalise immediately to the affricates.
1979 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 24 i. 20 It incorporates both articulatory (anteriority-coronality) and acoustic (stridency) features.
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