ALL meanings of stridency
stri·dent
S s - noun stridency sound's grating quality 1
- noun stridency aggressive insistence 1
- adjective stridency making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges. 1
- adjective stridency having a shrill, irritating quality or character: a strident tone in his writings. 1
- adjective stridency Linguistics. (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodental and uvular fricatives, and most affricates. 1
- uncountable noun stridency Stridency is the quality of being strident. 0