LOUDNESS

flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, brashness, meretriciousness, tawdriness, glitz

(noun) tasteless showiness

volume, loudness, intensity

(noun) the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); “the kids played their music at full volume”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

loudness (countable and uncountable, plural loudnesses)

the perceptual strength or amplitude of sound pressure, measured in sones or phons

the physical strength of the sound pressure level, measured in decibels

Source: Wiktionary


Loud"ness, n.

Definition: The quality or state of being loud.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

23 February 2025

BARGAIN

(noun) an advantageous purchase; “she got a bargain at the auction”; “the stock was a real buy at that price”


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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