noun
- the quality of being nasal; resonance produced when air passes through the nose during speech
Usage: phonetics; linguistics
Examples
- The singer’s nasality made her voice distinctive but sometimes difficult to understand.
- Speech therapists work to reduce excessive nasality in their patients.
- The dialect was characterized by a pronounced nasality in certain vowel sounds.
- His cold increased the nasality of his speech temporarily.
- The linguist studied the nasality patterns in different regional accents.
- Nasality can be measured using acoustic analysis equipment.