prosody
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
General noun
The study of the metre, rhythm and intonation of verse.
Her lectures on prosody trace how metre shapes a poem's meaning.
Medicine noun
The rhythm, stress and intonation patterns that convey meaning beyond individual words.
Flattened prosody made her speech sound monotonous and masked her emotional intent.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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