nasality

Other forms: nasalities

Definitions of nasality
  1. noun
    a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators
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    types:
    nasal twang, twang
    exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)
    type of:
    quality, timber, timbre, tone
    (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
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