sound symbolism

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sound symbolism

noun sound symbolisms · sound-symbolism

countable, uncountable Phonetic symbolism.
Similar: mimologics, phonosemantics, ideophone, ideophonics, phonaesthesia, sound symbolics
countable, uncountable speech sound that is neither arbitrary with respect to meaning nor an onomatopoeia that imitates a real sound
countable, uncountable the property of such a sound or sequence of sounds

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@misc{sound_symbolism_2026,
  title = {sound symbolism},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sound%20symbolism},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}