sound symbolism
noun Linguistics.
a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
Words nearby sound symbolism
sound recordist, sound shift, sound spectrogram, sound spectrograph, sound stage, sound symbolism, sound system, sound truck, sound wave, sound-and-light, sound-and-light show
Origin of sound symbolism
First recorded in 1875–80
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