sonance means A sound; a tune. It carries an Arena rating of 1338, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sonance ranks #5,090 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #6,868 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words, #7,017 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #7,578 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words.
Why “sonance” is a great word
The presence or quality of audible sound. It springs from the Latin sonāre ("to sound") and the suffix -ance, denoting a state or quality; first recorded in English between 1590 and 1600. Unlike "silence," the void where nothing vibrates, or "noise," the grating intrusion, sonance is the neutral hum of presence—the resonant ring of a struck glass, the low thrum of a cello string just after being touched, the faint, persistent drone of a refrigerator at three in the morning. It is sound stripped of meaning, merely present, the world's soft insistence that it is still alive.
noun
- A sound; a tune.
- The quality or state of being sonant.
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