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Shrillness

noun
1.
The quality of being sharp or harsh to the senses.
2.
Having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound.  Synonyms: stridence, stridency.





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"Shrillness" Quotes from Famous Books



... have not been through the cruel suffocation of a dynamite explosion, to realise completely how the crushed collapse of the nervous system leaves mind, thought, and feeling absolutely prostrate before the mere shrillness of sound. We are not speaking now of the cases in which serious harm is done—of course anyone can understand that—but only of the cases, after all, and in even the best carried out and most brutally contrived dynamite attempt—the vast majority of cases in which the intended, or at ...
— The Dictator • Justin McCarthy
 
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Words linked to "Shrillness" :   shrill, quality, stridence, stridency, tone, interest, interestingness, timber, timbre



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