Dictionary

diminuendo en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /dɪˌmɪnjuːˈɛndəʊ/ (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.

Meanings

1. describing a passage having this mark

Forms

Antonyms

crescendo

Synonyms

decrescendo

diminuendo en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /dɪˌmɪnjuːˈɛndəʊ/ (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.

Meanings

1. played in this style

Forms

diminuendo en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /dɪˌmɪnjuːˈɛndəʊ/ (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.

Meanings

1. A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly
2. A passage having this mark
3. (figuratively) The gradual dying away of something.
   • 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. 1988, Robert James Nelson, Willa Cather and France: In Search of the Lost Language, →ISBN, page 79:
   • Jillian haad the kind of charm that wore off. Or after enough romantic diminuendos, that's what she theorized. 2018, Lionel Shriver, The Standing Chandelier:
   • Harlow gazed, like Henry, out the wide corner window, enjoying the diminuendos of the light. 1998, Edward Abbey, The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel, →ISBN:

Forms

Translations (9)

ko 데크레셴도 (music: dynamic mark) · fi diminuendo (music: dynamic mark) · fi hiipuminen (gradual dying away of something) · cmn 漸弱 /渐弱 (music: dynamic mark) · fi diminuendo (music: passage) · nl diminuendo (music: dynamic mark) · ja ディミヌエンド (music: dynamic mark) · ko 디미누엔도 (music: dynamic mark) · de Diminuendo (music: dynamic mark)