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SUSURRATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
Synonyms:
susurration; voicelessness; whisper; whispering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("susurration" is a kind of...):
speaking; speech production (the utterance of intelligible speech)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "susurration"):
stage whisper (a loud whisper that can be overheard; on the stage it is heard by the audience but it supposed to be inaudible to the rest of the cast)
Derivation:
susurrate (issue soft noises)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The indistinct sound of people whispering
Example:
a soft susurrus of conversation
Synonyms:
susurration; susurrus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("susurration" is a kind of...):
sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)
Derivation:
susurrate (issue soft noises)
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