sibilancy
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪbɪlənsi/
Noun
sibilancy (usually uncountable, plural sibilancies)
- the state or property of being sibilant
- 1876, James Russell Lowell, “Milton”, in Among My Books: Second Series:
- Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy, he who wrote […] verses that hiss like Medusa's head in wrath.
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Synonyms
- sibilance
Anagrams
- bacilysin