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Characterized by a hissing sound; noting sounds like those spelled with s in "this".

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Usage examples (9)
  • His accent, as usual, increased in sibilancy when he was upset.
  • Certainly Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy, he who wrote
  • R, leaves an aperture just so large as to prevent sibilancy, and sonorous air from the larynx be modulated in passing through it; the vowel
  • L, leaves an aperture just so large as to prevent sibilancy, and sonorous air from the larynx be modulated in passing through it; the letter
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