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Definition of Stridency
1. Noun. Having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound.
Generic synonyms: Quality, Timber, Timbre, Tone
Derivative terms: Shrill, Strident, Strident, Strident
Definition of Stridency
1. Noun. The quality of being strident. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stridency
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Stridency
Literary usage of Stridency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton (1913)
"Her way of receiving him made him feel that her restlessness and stridency were
as unlike her genuine self as the gilded drawing-room, and that this quiet ..."
2. The Bookman (1916)
"Elderly people found it but another manifestation of the deplorable stridency of
cheap literature — one could not imagine the Knickerbocker doing such a ..."
3. The BookmanPopular culture Periodicals (1911)
"... that stridency in my pictures, but much more I hope that I catch the notes of
the song behind it, for that is the important thing. Nature, as I say, ..."
4. Shakespeare by Walter Alexander Raleigh (1907)
"Force, stridency, loud jesting and braggart declamation carried the day, and left
no room for the daintiness of the literary conscience. ..."
5. Nation Against State: A New Approach to Ethnic Conflicts and the Decline of by Gidon Gottlieb (1993)
"Wariness, extremism, and stridency nourish the fears that cruel tragedies sustain.
The fragility of a status quo is often preferable to the anxieties of ..."
6. Nation Against State: A New Approach to Ethnic Conflicts and the Decline of by Gidon Gottlieb (1993)
"Wariness, extremism, and stridency nourish the fears that cruel tragedies sustain.
The fragility of a status quo is often preferable to the anxieties of ..."
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