stridencies
Grating vocal qualities
Stridencies is the plural of stridency—instances of harsh, grating, or aggressively insistent quality.
The word applies to sounds that are unpleasantly shrill, or to rhetoric and behavior that is loudly forceful: The stridencies of the political debate drove moderate voters away.
Her voice had stridencies that made listening difficult.
Sustained unpleasant noise
- clamorLoud persistent noise
- racketUproar, scam, or paddle
- noiseUnwanted auditory disturbance
- discordanceConflicting elements together
dissonance · jangle · jarring · clangor · raucous · harsh · grating · blaring
Rough enough to erode
- causticChemically burning; bitterly mocking
- bitingHarshly critical or cold
- acrimoniousBitterly antagonistic in tone
- scathingSeverely and bitingly critical
mordant · sharp · acerbic · cutting · severe · brusque · incisive · sardonic
Violent disagreement or collision
- conflictOpposition between parties
- dissensionConflict within a group
- frictionResistance between touching surfaces
- tensionStretched or strained state
disagreement · opposition · dispute · disharmony · schism · contention · divisiveness · acrimony
din
Sustained unpleasant noise
discordance · dissonance · jangle · jarring · clangor · raucous · harsh · grating · blaring · clashing
abrasive
Rough enough to erode
- causticChemically burning; bitterly mocking
- bitingHarshly critical or cold
- acrimoniousBitterly antagonistic in tone
scathing · mordant · sharp · acerbic · cutting · severe · brusque · incisive · sardonic · piercing
clash
Violent disagreement or collision
- conflictOpposition between parties
- dissensionConflict within a group
- frictionResistance between touching surfaces
tension · disagreement · opposition · dispute · disharmony · schism · contention · divisiveness · acrimony · antagonism
piercing
Penetrating or very sharp
high-pitched · shriek · screaming · whistle · squeak · treble · soprano · falsetto · yelp · whine
stridenciessoftness
Yielding to gentle pressure
melodiousness · mellowness · gentleness · dulcet tones · smoothness
stridenciesgentleness
Soft, kind demeanor
softness · diplomacy · tact · understatement · mildness
strident, stridency, stridently, stridor, stridulation, stridulate, stridence