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VOCALITY

Definitions: VOCALITY

VOCALITY

Noun

1. The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.

2. The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Vocality \Vo*cal"i*ty\, noun. [Compare to Latin vocalitas euphony.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: VOCALITY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Voice

Noun: voice; vocality; organ, lungs, bellows; good voice, fine voice, powerful voice; (loud); musical voice; intonation; tone of voice; (sound).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: VOCALITY

English words defined with "VOCALITY": Vocalness. (references)

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Commercial Usage: VOCALITY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Embodied Voices : Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: VOCALITY

Language Translations for "VOCALITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

φωνητικότησ, φωνητικότητα. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ocalityvay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: VOCALITY

Derivations

Words ending with "VOCALITY": equivocality. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "VOCALITY"

Words rhyming with "VOCALITY" (pronounced 'Vo*cal"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VOCALITY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-o-t-v-y"

-1 letter: ovality, voltaic.

-2 letters: aliyot, cavity, citola, coital.

-3 letters: cavil, clavi, coaly, coati, laity, lotic, lovat, lytic, octal, octyl, tical, vatic, viola, vital, vocal, voila, volta, volti.

-4 letters: acyl, alit, alto, calo, cavy, ciao, city, clay, clit, clot, cloy, coal, coat, coil, cola, colt, coly, iota, lacy, laic, lati, loca, loci, lota, loti, oily, otic.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-o-t-v-y"
 

+1 letter: coevality.

 

+2 letters: vocatively, vortically.

 

+3 letters: clairvoyant, combatively, evocatively, valedictory, vectorially, viceroyalty, volcanicity.

 

+4 letters: clairvoyants, conviviality, decoratively, equivocality, inchoatively, vocationally.

 

+5 letters: associatively, avocationally, clairvoyantly, comparatively, connotatively, contrastively, cooperatively, correlatively, provinciality, provocatively, radioactively, retroactively, viceroyalties.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: VOCALITY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 4F 43 41 4C 49 54 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    ---    -.-.    .-    .-..    ..    -    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01001111 01000011 01000001 01001100 01001001 01010100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#79 &#67 &#65 &#76 &#73 &#84 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 004F 0043 0041 004C 0049 0054 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5649373546435459

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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