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SUSURRATION

Dictionary entry overview: What does susurration mean?

• SUSURRATION (noun)
The noun SUSURRATION has 2 senses:

1. the indistinct sound of people whispering
2. speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords

Familiarity information: SUSURRATION used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SUSURRATION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The indistinct sound of people whispering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

susurration; susurrus

Context example:

a soft susurrus of conversation

Hypernyms ("susurration" is a kind of...):

sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

whisper; susurration; voicelessness; whispering

Hypernyms ("susurration" is a kind of...):

speaking; speech production (the utterance of intelligible speech)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "susurration"):

stage whisper (a loud whisper that can be overheard; on the stage it is heard by the audience but it supposed to be inaudible to the rest of the cast)

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