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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

gutturality en · NOUN

Etymology

From guttural + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being guttural.
    • gh was a reinforcement of the old gutturality of h 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
  2. (countable) An instance of being guttural.
    • Quartermain launched into another effusion of fractured French mingled with made-up words resembling the singsong gutturalities of the Swedish actress with whom he'd spent a delightful weekend at Palm Springs last year. 1988, Loup Durand, Daddy:

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gutturalities Number=Plur lexicographic