euphony

 

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From French euphonie, from Ancient Greek εὐφωνία (euphōnía), from εὐ- (eu-, prefix meaning ‘good, well’) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound; (human) voice; discourse, speech”) (from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, speak”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).^[1] The English word is analysable as eu- +‎ -phony.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːfəni/

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euphony (countable and uncountable, plural euphonies)

1. A pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.

   Antonym: cacophony

   • 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth, Chapter 8:

     Mandalay. In the name there was a euphony which beckoned to the imagination, yet this was the bitter, withered reality.

2. Pleasant phonetic quality of certain words.

   When I hear you speak, I hear beautiful euphony.

• euphonious
• euphonic

• ideophone
• phonaesthesia