Noun

(cacophonies)

A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.

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Not more unutterable could have been the chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was centered all the supernal terror and unnatural despair of animate nature.

Noun

(uncountable) The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.

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, year= 1553 , year_published= 1909 , author= , (Desiderius Erasmus) , by= , title= Arte of Rhetorique , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6p0xbOGIz2MC&pg=PA173 , original= , chapter= , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Clarendon Press , location= Oxford , editor= , volume= , page= , passage= A woorde making called of the Grecians Onomatapoia , is when wee make wordes of our owne minde, such as bee derived from the nature of things. }}

(countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle" or "hiss".

(uncountable, rhetoric) The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.