sibilance
noun
a hissing quality of sound, or the hissing sound itself.
Example Sentences
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His lungs drank in the cold, balsam-scented air like a suction pump and expelled each breath with the sibilancy of steam escaping from a valve.
From The Courage of Marge O'Doone by Lester Ralph
It was the Pug now, a curious whispering sibilancy in his voice, due no doubt to the disfigurement of his lips.
From The White Moll by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
