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stridency

Meaning of "stridency" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF STRIDENCY

ˈstraɪdənsɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STRIDENCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Stridency is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES STRIDENCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of stridency in the English dictionary

The definition of stridency in the dictionary is the quality of having or making a loud or harsh sound. Other definition of stridency is urgency, clamorousness, or vociferousness.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STRIDENCY

ascendancy · cadency · co-dependency · co-presidency · coincidency · confidency · dependancy · dependency · independency · interdependency · nonresidency · pendency · precedency · presidency · pudency · redundancy · residency · subsidency · tendency · vice-presidency

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STRIDENCY

stridden · stride · stride piano · stridelegged · stridelegs · stridence · strident · stridently · strider · strides · strideways · stridling · stridor · stridulance · stridulant · stridulantly · stridulate · stridulation · stridulator · stridulatory

WORDS THAT END LIKE STRIDENCY

agency · ardency · ascendency · bearish tendency · central tendency · co-respondency · correspondency · countertendency · decadency · despondency · escaping tendency · high-dependency · impendency · impudency · Militant Tendency · resplendency · respondency · revolving presidency · Ross Dependency · transcendency

Synonyms and antonyms of stridency in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «stridency» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STRIDENCY

Find out the translation of stridency to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of stridency from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stridency» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

刺耳
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

estridencia
570 millions of speakers
en

English

stridency
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

stridency
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحدة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

резкость
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

estridência
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

stridency
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

stridence
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Kekurangan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Schärfe
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

耳障り
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

stridency
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Struktensi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

stridency
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

உரத்து
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

ताठरपणा
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

tiz
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

stridore
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

stridency
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

різкість
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

stridența
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τραχυφωνία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stridency
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stridency
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stridency
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stridency

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STRIDENCY»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about stridency

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRIDENCY»

Discover the use of stridency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stridency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics
Stridency deletion refers to the lack of a stridency contrast. Although this label is not common across all analysis programs, it is often used to refer to any pattern that results in the loss of a strident phoneme regardless of whether or not the two  ...
Martin J. Ball, Michael R. Perkins, Nicole Müller, 2009
2
An Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition
1. DOCUMENTING THE GENERALIZATION. 1.1. STRIDENCY. Stridency, as used herein, refers to high noise intensity of fricatives and affricates. However, in the absence of explicit description of sounds as strident or nonstrident in the survey ...
Robert Kirchner, 2013
3
Making Healthcare Care: Managing Via Simple Guiding Principles
He contrasts this to his experiences in the countryside of France, where his doctor engaged in true honest dialogue. Socratic dialogue often reverts to strident debate. Stridency is accompanied by a reluctance of either side to acknowledge that ...
Hugo K. Letiche, 2008
4
Theology in a New Key: Responding to Liberation Themes
The Beneficial Effects of Stridency Sometimes it is only after the intrusion of stridency that our ears are opened to hear the melody in the way it is meant to be heard. Stridency, dissonance, discord can sometimes give new meaning to the ...
Robert McAfee Brown, 1978
5
The Blackwell Companion to Phonology: Suprasegmental and ...
But, in order to generate /t/ → [tj], the ranking of the constraints must be exactly the opposite: Ident[+ant] and Ident[−strid] must outrank Posterior and Stridency, respectively. The problem with classic OT is that it assumes strict parallelism as one ...
Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume, 2011
6
Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: ...
We need to ask which kinds of phonological distinctions are needed within the realm of stops and fricatives. Candidates are 'voicing', 'stridency', 'tenseness', ' lateralisation' and 'nasalisation', all of which have been suggested as 'manner- like' ...
Philip Carr, Jacques Durand, Colin J. Ewen, 2005
7
American Holocaust: The Price of Victimless Crime Laws
The stridency of those who favor laws regarding drugs, prostitution and gambling is readily apparent. It is also apparent that those in favor of the laws are intolerant of the people who are targeted by the laws. Religious people are also ...
Tim O'Donnell, 2000
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Contributions to Comparative Mythology: Studies in ...
The distribution of mark and unmarkedness between stridency and mellowness is diametrically opposite in abrupt and in continuant consonants. Mellowness for the abrupts and stridency for the continuants are exemplifications of the ...
Stephen Rudy, 1985
9
The Sound Pattern of Russian: A Linguistic and Acoustical ...
Stridency is distinctive for all noncompact consonants. Continuant consonants except [x] are strident while most stops are mellow. The feature of stridency is, therefore, in complementary distribution with the feature continuant vs. interrupted in ...
Morris Halle, 1971
10
Selected Writings
The distribution of mark and unmarkedness between stridency and mellowness is diametrically opposite in abrupt and in continuant consonants. Mellowness for the abrupts and stridency for the continuants are exemplifications of the ...
Roman Jakobson, Stephen Rudy, 1985

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STRIDENCY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stridency is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lord Steel: “Belligerence and stridency are now the order of the day …
Belligerence and stridency are now the order of the day in Edinburgh as well. [Ed – Slugger readers might recognise those traits in Stormont too?] Lord Steel of ... «Slugger O'Toole, Jul 15»
2
True Detective Season 2 Episode 4 Review: Is going rogue the only …
He is using words like Apoplectic, Stridency, and Louche! Then there is covering the tea stains on the table cover. Is this his way of clinging to the new life he has ... «Daily News & Analysis, Jul 15»
3
Review: 'True Detective' Season 2 Episode 4, 'Down Will Come …
"Stridency," okay. "Apoplectic"? Fine. But "louche"? Does Frank have custom word of the day toilet paper for Ivy League gangsters? Does he think it's threatening ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
4
Can We Trust the New Dialogue Between India and Pakistan?
What changed so suddenly that New Delhi decided to forgo stridency in favor of engagement? One cannot discount the possibility of pressure on New Delhi ... «The Diplomat, Jul 15»
5
True Detective Review: "Maybe Tomorrow"
Semyon: There's a certain stridency at work here. I'm going to put it off to you getting blasted. Velcoro: Oh, frankly…I'm apoplectic. Semyon: I'm feeling a little ... «Paste Magazine, Jul 15»
6
Should we be worried politics has become so humorless?
Stridency is up; the capacity to take teasing is down. At least that's my hunch. There is no national gag-o-meter to measure such things. The absence of laughter ... «Knoxville News Sentinel, Jun 15»
7
Almagro as new OAS chief pledges to end fragmentation and to …
... with seeking practical solutions to the enduring problems of our region than with rhetoric and stridency in statements guided by one ideology or another.”. «MercoPress, May 15»
8
AAP flawed champion of new politics: JP
But he said that AAP's "stridency, anarchic anti-institutionalism, freebies and reckless populism are troubling". "There is a deep desire to end plutocracy and ... «Greatandhra.com, Feb 15»
9
'Ghar Wapsi' row: VHP softens its tone, says it is a long-time goal
VHP's stridency on the issue was missing when questioned about the organisation's resolution in its meeting of December 28-29, of pressing the government for ... «Economic Times, Jan 15»
10
Wainwright in Winter
Yet this and all the other tender presaging of compromised singlehood Mr. Wainwright delivers with triumphant stridency. Wainwright fans will recognize the ... «East Hampton Star, Dec 14»
REFERENCE
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