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nasality
noun[ U ]
uk /neɪˈzæl.ə.ti/ us /neɪˈzæl.ə.t̬i/
the quality of a person's voice that has a particular sound because air is going through their nose when they speak:
In many American accents, there's a nasality in the vowels that we don't have.
Nasality occurs in many different language families, and its behaviour varies widely.
His lisping nasality in the role of the music teacher was very funny.
While nasality is contrastive in French, it does not have this function in English.
The nasality and uncertain intonation of a Liverpool accent can lend it a deadpan quality.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Describing qualities of the human voice
adenoidal
aloud
be dripping with somethingidiom
boomy
bray
breathy
brittle
chocolatey
fruity
multi-voiced
nasally
pitchy
purringly
rasping
soft-spoken
stentorian
strangulated
toned
toneless
wispily
Related word
nasal
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