Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality, in a sound or in music, of being pleasing to the ear; the character of having a flowing and beautiful melody.

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  • noun The property of being melodious.

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  • noun the property of having a melody

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Examples

  • That fine melodiousness, which is one of Spenser's signal characteristics, may be perceived in his

    A Biography of Edmund Spenser John W. Hales 1875

  • This was an instrument that could sing, and as composer Ferruccio Busoni declared of Mozart's music, an "uninterrupted melodiousness…shimmers through his compositions like the lovely forms of a woman through the folds of a thin dress."

    New Work, New Instrument Stuart Isacoff 2011

  • In setting a libretto based on Friedrich Schiller's drama about Switzerland's 14th-century freedom-fighter, Rossini eschewed elaborate vocal ornamentation for expansive melodiousness.

    The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

  • In three pieces by Lauro, Perez underscored the slightly Viennese lilt of the "Vals Venezolano," caressed the "Romanza" with pure poetry speaking of ancient modal melodiousness, and raced through the "Pasaje Aragueno," missing none of its Spanish fandango undercurrents.

    Performing arts: Nejla Yatkin, Kris Kristofferson, Carlos Perez Post 2010

  • Their music began to lose some of its childlike melodiousness and drive harder.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • Their music began to lose some of its childlike melodiousness and drive harder.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • Their music began to lose some of its childlike melodiousness and drive harder.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • She attempted to fuse modern art and poetry in a new style that she termed “white words,” striving, as she put it, to create a new lyric poetry of the urban condition: a poetry of cool stasis and of geometric ornamentation with a rhythm of repetition that can replace melodiousness and dynamism, in which monotone becomes theme.

    Dvoyre Fogel. 2009

  • I have also seen that quote with the idiots replaced with jackasses, which seems to add to the melodiousness.

    Archive 2009-06-01 michael 2009

  • I have also seen that quote with the idiots replaced with jackasses, which seems to add to the melodiousness.

    All at once... michael 2009

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