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sibilance en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English sibilant Latin -ns Latin -āns Latin -ia Latin -āntia Old French -ancebor. Middle English -aunce English -ance English sibilance From sibilant + -ance.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being sibilant: a hissing quality.
   • Work to control the sibilance of your s sounds. 2009, Jean Ann Wright, M. J. Lallo, Voice-Over for Animation, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 28:
   • Most often sending the vocal through a de-esser will either eliminate the sibilance or greatly reduce its sound. 2012, Michael Zager, Music Production: For Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students, Second Edition, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 277:
   • A string of words beginning with ‘s’ will cause sibilance. 2006, Barbara Alysen, Electronic Reporter: Broadcast Journalism in Australia, Second Edition, University of New south Wales Press, →ISBN, page 118:
   • The following exercises help combat sibilance, plosives, lazy tongue, and mouth problems. 2000, Elaine A. Clark, There's Money Where Your Mouth Is: An Insider's Guide to a Career in Voice-Overs, Second Edition, Back Stage Books, →ISBN, page 24:
   • The Pet Shop Boys are yet another synth-pop duo, albeit one that is not quite out of the closet. […] In past interviews, however, they [the Pet Shop Boys] have referred to their sound as "specifically gay disco," and their lyrics have that certain queenly something that lead singer Neil Tennant sings with an adorable sibilance. 1990 December 23, Christopher Wittke, “Pop Goes 1990”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 23, page 9:

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