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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6 November 2024

SEARCHINGLY

(adverb) in a searching manner; “‘Are you really happy with him,’ asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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