pantonality

Etymology

From pan- + tonality.

pantonality means twelve-tone music, seen as an extension of tonality to all keys (rather than to no key). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.

Why this word is great

PANTONALITY — [Noun] A system of extended tonality that organizes all twelve chromatic tones into a single, integrated harmonic field. From the prefix pan- (from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân), meaning "all, every, whole") + tonality (from tone, ultimately from Latin tonus, meaning "sound, tone"). Unlike atonality, which denotes a deliberate vacuum of key, or polytonality, which implies competing gravitational pulls, pantonality proposes a sovereign field where every pitch is both subject and sovereign. It is the sonic equivalent of a cosmos where every star exerts equal pull; the architectural logic of a house where every room is an entrance; the vertiginous freedom of a sphere where every point is home. This is the poignant human project of building a home in the infinite—a sublime and disquieting hypothesis of sound.

noun

Twelve-tone music, seen as an extension of tonality to all keys (rather than to no key).
Non-functional tonality or pandiatonicism.