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sonority

noun/səˈnɒrɪti/

C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister

The quality of being deep, full and resonant in sound.

The organ's low registers gave the hymn a remarkable sonority.

Similar: resonance, richness

Origin: From Latin sonor 'sound', from sonare 'to sound'.

Topic: resonance in General English

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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