MUSICALITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The property of sounding like music

Synonyms:

musicality; musicalness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("musicality" is a kind of...):

sound property (an attribute of sound)

Attribute:

musical (characteristic of or resembling or accompanied by music)

nonmusical; unmusical (not musical in nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "musicality"):

lyricality; lyricism; songfulness (the property of being suitable for singing)

melodiousness; tunefulness (the property of having a melody)

texture (the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together)

Derivation:

musical (containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody)

musical (characteristic of or resembling or accompanied by music)