stridence

Thân thiện

The singer's voice had an unpleasant stridence during the high note.

Definition

Noun: 1. A harsh, loud, and high-pitched quality of sound: Stridence refers to the property of a sound that is grating, shrill, and unpleasant to the ear due to its loudness and high frequency.

Usage

• Stridence is an uncountable noun used to describe the quality of a sound, not the sound itself.
• It is often used in formal or literary contexts to describe noises that are irritatingly sharp and loud.
• It can be used metaphorically to describe the harsh, forceful, or unpleasantly insistent quality of non-auditory things, such as speech, writing, or colors.

Examples

• The stridence of the fire alarm made it impossible to think.
• She winced at the stridence of the violin being tuned.
• The political debate was marked more by stridence than by reasoned argument.
• The stridence of his criticism alienated potential allies.

Advanced Usage

• Metaphorical Use: Stridence can describe anything perceived as harshly insistent or aggressively loud in a non-literal sense.
  • The stridence of the neon signs gave the street a chaotic feel.
  • Her writing avoided the stridence common in partisan journalism.

Variants and Related Words

• Stridency (noun): A synonym for stridence, used interchangeably.
• Stridulant (adj): Producing a shrill, grating sound (often used in entomology for insects like crickets).
• Strident (adj): The adjective form. Describes something that has the quality of stridence.
  • A strident voice.
  • Strident criticism.

Synonyms

• Shrillness
• Harshness
• Raspiness
• Raucousness
• Grating quality

Antonyms

• Mellowness
• Softness
• Dulcetness
• Melodiousness

Học thuật

Noun

1. having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound

Từ đồng nghĩa

• shrillness
• stridency