plangency
1Plangency — Plan gen*cy, n. The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound. [R.] [1913 Webster] …
2plangency — plangent ► ADJECTIVE chiefly literary ▪ (of a sound) loud and resonant, with a mournful tone. DERIVATIVES plangency noun plangently adverb. ORIGIN from Latin plangere to lament …
3plangency — noun Date: 1858 the quality or state of being plangent …
4plangency — See plangent. * * * …
5plangency — noun The state of being plangent …
6plangency — plændÊ’É™nsɪ n. vibrating noise; constant sound; sound of waves crashing …
7plangency — plan·gen·cy …
8plangency — noun having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant • Syn: ↑resonance, ↑reverberance, ↑ringing, ↑sonorousness, ↑sonority, ↑vibrancy • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
9plangent — plangency, n. plangently, adv. /plan jeuhnt/, adj. resounding loudly, esp. with a plaintive sound, as a bell. [1815 25; < L plangent (s. of plangens), prp. of plangere to beat, lament. See PLAIN2, ENT] * * * …
10reverberance — noun having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant • Syn: ↑plangency, ↑resonance, ↑ringing, ↑sonorousness, ↑sonority, ↑vibrancy • Derivationally related forms: ↑v …
