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
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
He is a child in sensibility, while a youth in the vividness, and a man in the grasp, the piercingness and the copiousness of his thoughts.
From The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day
Lucy's eyes, moreover, were riveted on her face, on its colour, its fineness of feature, its brilliance and piercingness of expression.
From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Then a skirl of laughter, the piercingness of which, near to, could only be guessed at.
From The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck
