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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The condition of being musical.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Talent or sensitivity in the playing of music.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the property of sounding like music
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: musicalness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sound property
Narrower terms: lyricality, lyricism, songfulness, melodiousness, tunefulness, texture
History
Etymology tree English musical Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English musicality From musical + -ity.
Across languages
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
