sonority

• HYPHEN: so=nor=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

sonority, n. [L. sonoritas.].

 The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

sonority

allophone, alveolar, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, bassness, bilabial, cacuminal, cerebral, check, consonant, continuant, crescendo, deepness, dental, diphthong, dissimilation, epenthetic vowel, explosive, fullness, glide, glottal, glottalization, guttural, hollowness, intensity, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lingual, liquid, loudishness, loudness, lowness, manner of articulation, mellowness, modification, monophthong, morphophoneme, mute, nasal, occlusive, palatal, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phone, phoneme, plangency, plosive, prothetic vowel, resonance, retroflex, richness, segmental phoneme, semivowel, sonant, sonorousness, speech sound, stop, surd, surge, surge of sound, swell, swelling, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, transition sound, triphthong, velar, vibrancy, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, volume, vowel