SIBILATION
sibilation, assibilation
(noun) pronunciation with a sibilant (hissing or whistling) sound
hiss, hissing, hushing, fizzle, sibilation
(noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval); “the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sibilation (countable and uncountable, plural sibilations)
A hissing sound.
Source: Wiktionary
Sib`i*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. sibilatio.]
Definition: Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss. He, with a long, low sibilation, stared. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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