Diminuendo

/dɪˌmɪnjuːˈɛndəʊ/ · noun

Meaning

(music) A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly.

Definitions by Sense

1. (music) A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly
2. (music) A passage having this mark
3. (figurative) The gradual dying away of something.
4. (music) played in this style
5. (music) describing a passage having this mark

Example Sentences

Thus, in "Flavia and Her Artists" (1905), for example, a fiction of consonance in diminuendo, the French subtext states a set of harmonies (the young American returned from France) and cacophonies (the supercilious French art critic, Roux) shedding light on the main text with its own consonances of intergenerationsl friendship, marital loyalty, artistic pleasure, and joyful lesbianism.

Harlow gazed, like Henry, out the wide corner window, enjoying the diminuendos of the light.

Jillian haad the kind of charm that wore off. Or after enough romantic diminuendos, that's what she theorized.

Synonyms for diminuendo

Antonyms for diminuendo

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Word Forms

• diminuendos
• more diminuendo
• most diminuendo

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