antinoise

[an-tee-noiz, an-tahy-]

adjective

1. designed to reduce or ban excessively loud sound, as of jet engines or traffic.

   antinoise legislation.

antinoise

/ ˈæntɪˌnɔɪz /

noun

1. sound generated so that it is out of phase with a noise, such as that made by an engine, in order to reduce the noise level by interference

Word History and Origins

Origin of antinoise¹

First recorded in 1905–10; anti- + noise

Example Sentences

But antinoise activists worried it was a tacit acknowledgment of defeat.

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Dr. Rice lobbied Congress to pass one of the earliest antinoise laws, one that prohibited “unnecessary” steamboat whistling that could “murder sleep and therefore man.”

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Especially galling, Mrs. Cunningham and other antinoise advocates say, is the fact that while helicopters are used by a tiny sliver of those who journey to the Hamptons — a one-way ride costs thousands of dollars — they cause disproportionate widespread misery.

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Opponents of the antinoise campaign criticized Lessing and his supporters as hypersensitive fanatics resisting progress.

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He writes about John Connell, a British antinoise crusader in the mid-20th century, who came up with a “rubber-lidded dustbin” to muffle the sound of early-morning trash collections and who succeeded temporarily in halting night flights from Heathrow Airport.

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