NASALITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)