Euphony

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Euphony \Eu"pho*ny\, n.; pl. {Euphonies}. [L. euphonia, Gr. ?,
     fr. ? sweet-voiced; e'y^ well + ? sound, voice; akin to ? to
     speak: cf. F. euphonie.]
     A pleasing or sweet sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of
     sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is
     pleasing to the ear.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  euphony
       n : any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds; "he fell
           asleep to the music of the wind chimes" [syn: {music}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "euphony":
     accord, accordance, attune, attunement, balance, beauty, chime,
     chiming, concentus, concert, concinnity, concord, concordance,
     consonance, consonancy, consort, diapason, equilibrium, harmonics,
     harmony, heavy harmony, homophony, measure, measuredness,
     monochord, monody, order, orderedness, proportion, rhythm,
     sweetness, symmetry, symphony, synchronism, synchronization,
     three-part harmony, tune, unison, unisonance