soˈnorousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The character or quality of being sonorous.
| a 1691 Boyle Ess. Intestine Motions of Solids vii. Wks. 1772 I. 450 Of what age..such instruments..ought to be, to attain their full and best seasoning for sonorousness. 1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 478 We did not find that sonorousness in the Tonga-Tabboo dialect, which is prevalent in that of Taheitee. 1778 W. Pryce Min. Cornub. 46 A small portion of Bismuth increases the brightness, hardness, and sonorousness of Tin. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 503/1 The peculiar sonorousness which percussion frequently elicits over the left hypochondrium. 1865 Grote Plato I. i. 73 The colour, sonorousness,..&c., of the bodies around us. 1881 Nature XXIV. 42 Sonorousness, under the influence of intermittent light, is a property common to all matter. |