piercing
adjective
loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
piercingness
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a word derived from
piercing.
Example Sentences
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It was like the whistling of a piccolo many times magnified—shrill and shriller till it keened with the terror of a lost soul and filled the room with the piercingness of itself.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Then a skirl of laughter, the piercingness of which, near to, could only be guessed at.
From The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck
Quite suddenly, shockingly, her lovely figure became transfused with a vile, interloping energy that struck at Druga's sensitivities with a sickening piercingness, so that he sprang to his feet in fear.
From Daughter of the Night by Richard S. Shaver
But Ravel is full of a lyricism, a piercingness, a passionateness, that much of the music of Debussy successive to "Pelléas" wants.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
But with their truth and piercingness and delicacy of observation, their roughness gives a kind of flavour which no elaboration could give.
From Bacon by John Morley
