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Having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound
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stridence
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound [syn: shrillness , stridency ]
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the quality of being strident
Usage examples of stridence.
He had a small childlike voice ordinarily, but rage caused it to lift and take on the stridence of a steamboat siren.
Many things were being offered for sale, the voices shouting in competitive stridence: there was the Dune Tarot with its booklets of commentaries imprinted on shigawire.
Her tone was gentle, no longer having the den-mother stridence it often had.
The silent stridence faded as he found the single door of escape, yawning, a merciful night without stars.
It seemed suddenly that he had turned to stone and through the stoniness rang a shrilling stridence of alarm bells in his brain.