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Twangy quality
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nasality
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Word definitions for nasality in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In normal speech, nasality is referred to as nasalization and is a linguistic category that can apply to vowels or consonants in a specific language. The primary underlying physical variable determining the degree of nasality in normal speech is the opening ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being nasal.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nasality \Na*sal"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. nasalit['e].] The quality or state of being nasal.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators
Usage examples of nasality.
Or where this is broken, as in ym/in, we have recognition of the fact that m/n, though technically made at different contact points, have in their nasality and resonance a similarity which overrides the more mechanical distinction - a fact which is reflected, shall we say, both in the case of m/n interchange in real languages (such as Greek), or in my inability to feel greatly wounded by m/n assonances in a rhyming poem.