sound symbolism
sound symbolism · sound symbolisms
Phonetic symbolismPhonetic symbolism.
Meaning
3 senses(countable, uncountable)Phonetic symbolism.
The phenomenon by which some speech sounds are associated with the meanings they convey, either intrinsically or by a recurring phono-semantic association, or an instance thereof; an ideophone.
(countable, uncountable)Speech sound that is neither arbitrary with respect to meaning nor an onomatopoeia that imitates a real sound
(countable, uncountable)The property of such a sound or sequence of sounds
Forms
plural: sound symbolisms| Singular | sound symbolism |
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regular
Synonyms
6 synonymsmimologicsphonosemanticsideophonephonaesthesiaideophonicssound symbolics
Word family
1 related wordsDerivedsound-symbolic
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.