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NASALITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nasality mean?
• NASALITY (noun)
The noun NASALITY has 1 sense:
1. a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators
Familiarity information: NASALITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("nasality" is a kind of...):
quality; timber; timbre; tone ((music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nasality"):
nasal twang; twang (exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects))
Derivation:
nasal (sounding as if the nose were pinched)
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