mellifluousness (noun)

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• mellifluousness — mellifluous ► ADJECTIVE ▪ pleasingly smooth and musical to hear. DERIVATIVES mellifluously adverb mellifluousness noun. ORIGIN from Latin mel honey + fluere to flow …   English terms dictionary

• mellifluousness — noun see mellifluous * * * mellifˈluousness noun • • • Main Entry: ↑melliferous …   Useful english dictionary

• mellifluousness — noun see mellifluous …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• mellifluousness — noun The property of being mellifluous …   Wiktionary

• mellifluous — [mɛ lɪflʊəs] adjective pleasingly smooth and musical to hear. Derivatives mellifluence noun mellifluent adjective mellifluously adverb mellifluousness noun Origin C15: from late L. mellifluus (from L. mel ho …   English new terms dictionary

• mellifluous — adjective Etymology: Middle English mellyfluous, from Late Latin mellifluus, from Latin mell , mel honey + fluere to flow; akin to Gothic milith honey, Greek melit , meli Date: 15th century 1. having a smooth rich flow < a mellifluous voice > 2.… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• mellifluous — /məˈlɪfluəs / (say muh lifloohuhs) adjective 1. sweetly or smoothly flowing: mellifluous tones. 2. flowing with honey; sweetened with or as with honey. {Middle English, from Late Latin mellifluus flowing with honey} –mellifluously, adverb… …  

• mellifluous — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ pleasingly smooth and musical to hear. DERIVATIVES mellifluously adverb mellifluousness noun. ORIGIN from Latin mel honey + fluere to flow …   English terms dictionary

• mellifluously — mellifluous ► ADJECTIVE ▪ pleasingly smooth and musical to hear. DERIVATIVES mellifluously adverb mellifluousness noun. ORIGIN from Latin mel honey + fluere to flow …   English terms dictionary

• harmony — noun 1) musical harmony Syn: euphony, polyphony; tunefulness, melodiousness, mellifluousness Ant: dissonance 2) the harmony of the whole structure Syn: balance, symmetry …   Thesaurus of popular words

• eloquence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. oratory, rhetoric, power; fluency, persuasiveness, volubility. See loquacity, speech. Ant., hesitancy, stammering. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The quality of effective speech] Syn. fluency, articulateness …   English dictionary for students