throaty
Poor breathing is the chief cause of throatiness.
"You're joking?" she said with her distinctive throatiness.
I kept thinking that the throatiness in her voice was quite pleasing.
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
nasality
nasally
pitchy
purringly
soft-spoken
stentorian
strangulated
toned
toneless
wispily
Examples of throatiness
throatiness
The neck should be free of
throatiness or dewlap.
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Her voice had developed a
throatiness because she could hear low tones better than high ones.
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