Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being vocal.
  • noun The quality of being a vowel; vowel character: as, the vocality of a sound.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance.
  • noun The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality or degree of being vocal.
  • noun The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

vocal +‎ -ity. Compare Latin vocalitas euphony.

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Examples

  • Once "vocality" is reimagined from the waver and give of textual inscription, it is always at base equi-vocation, a case of present contingency — evincing, without vouching for, the existence of a potential otherness in one and the same wording.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • In Making Words Sing, Jonathan Dunsby investigates what he calls the "vocality" of song, that is, the "quality of having voice," as the author states in the introduction to his study.

    Opera Today jimsohre@yahoo.com 2010

  • In Making Words Sing, Jonathan Dunsby investigates what he calls the "vocality" of song, that is, the "quality of having voice," as the author states in the introduction to his study.

    Opera Today 2010

  • In Making Words Sing, Jonathan Dunsby investigates what he calls the "vocality" of song, that is, the "quality of having voice," as the author states in the introduction to his study.

    Opera Today 2010

  • In Making Words Sing, Jonathan Dunsby investigates what he calls the "vocality" of song, that is, the "quality of having voice," as the author states in the introduction to his study.

    Opera Today gary@operatoday.com 2010

  • In Making Words Sing, Jonathan Dunsby investigates what he calls the "vocality" of song, that is, the "quality of having voice," as the author states in the introduction to his study.

    Opera Today gary@operatoday.com 2010

  • In Making Words Sing, Jonathan Dunsby investigates what he calls the "vocality" of song, that is, the "quality of having voice," as the author states in the introduction to his study.

    Opera Today gary@operatoday.com 2010

  • In Making Words Sing, Jonathan Dunsby investigates what he calls the "vocality" of song, that is, the "quality of having voice," as the author states in the introduction to his study.

    Opera Today jimsohre@yahoo.com 2010

  • In Making Words Sing, Jonathan Dunsby investigates what he calls the "vocality" of song, that is, the "quality of having voice," as the author states in the introduction to his study.

    Opera Today gary@operatoday.com 2010

  • In Making Words Sing, Jonathan Dunsby investigates what he calls the "vocality" of song, that is, the "quality of having voice," as the author states in the introduction to his study.

    Opera Today 2010

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