Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a vocal or similar sound, the state, quality, or effect resulting from an escape of unvocalized air with the sound proper, as in clumsy vocalization, apprehension or terror, whispering, etc.: sometimes equivalent to wheeziness, which, however, is usually applied to mechanical sounds, as to a poor organ tone.
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- noun The state or quality of being
breathy . - noun The result or product of being breathy.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her breathiness was a rumble amplified by the sound equipment.
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Her breathiness was a rumble amplified by the sound equipment.
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Her breathiness was a rumble amplified by the sound equipment.
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I don't mind the music and the softer beats, but her vocals seem to be lifeless and she could cut out a little of the "breathiness".
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I don't mind the music and the softer beats, but her vocals seem to be lifeless and she could cut out a little of the "breathiness".
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She doesn't like the "breathiness" of her delivery.
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“There are a range of other features such as hoarseness, roughness, breathiness of the voice, which have to do with the airflow over the vocal chords, and these all combine to make our voices distinctive.”
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She said in a Marilyn Monroe-like breathiness,“They say fifty is the new forty.”
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What would thereby be gained through such an alliterative onomatopoeia (in echo of the opening line's triplicate breathiness) would at the same time have to tally its losses in forfeiting the feathery overtone of "windy" in the given line's "wind, if."
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The voice's tools are inflection, speed, volume, breathiness, rhythm, and a bunch of stuff I've forgotten.
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