noun
Meaning 1
The state or quality of being nasal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Near-synonym: twang
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nasalness, twang
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
nasality
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/neɪˈzælɪtiː/
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noun
Meaning 2
a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: timbre, timber, quality, tone
Narrower terms: twang, nasal twang
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English nasal Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English nasality From nasal + -ity.
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: nasaliteit — state or quality of being nasal
- Finnish: nasaalisuus — state or quality of being nasal
- French: nasalité — state or quality of being nasal
- Galician: nasalidade — state or quality of being nasal
- German: Nasalität — state or quality of being nasal
- Italian: nasalità — state or quality of being nasal
- Latvian: nazālums — state or quality of being nasal
- Polish: nosowość — state or quality of being nasal
- Portuguese: nasalidade — state or quality of being nasal
- Russian: носовой хара́ктер зву́ка (nosovoj xarákter zvúka) — state or quality of being nasal
- Spanish: nasalidad — state or quality of being nasal
- Ottoman Turkish: صاغرلق (sağırlık) — state or quality of being nasal