Plangency

2 definitions found

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

  Plangency \Plan"gen*cy\, n.
     The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound. [R.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  plangency
       n : having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of
           being resonant [syn: {resonance}, {reverberance}, {ringing},
            {sonorousness}, {sonority}, {vibrancy}]