Breathiness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Breathiness is a noun meaning The state or quality of being breathy.
Meaning
The state or quality of being breathy.
More Meanings
- The result or product of being breathy.
Example Sentences
Here standard acoustic instruments are played in ways that suggest electronic sound: violins whir and buzz, woodwinds produce a toneless breathiness and a gentle tapping evokes a heartbeat.
If you dared, and if you had had any luck doing Princess Leia (Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope), you might even hazard Jessica Lange ’s tearful vanilla-rose breathiness: I really love you, Dorothy, but I can’t love you.
The smooth, even surfaces of Mr. Glass’s music expose his weaknesses as a pianist, but the faults added a kind of human breathiness to the piano’s embellished tread (reminiscent of Satie’s “Gymnopédies”) in the concluding piece, “The Orchard.” Ms. Sutter and her borrowed cello sang a little raucously over it, like Carly Simon at the end of the night.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include breathlessness, breathableness, respirability, breathability, respirableness, blowsiness.
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