euphony

English

Etymology

eu- (“good”) + -phony, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French euphonie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  euphonia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek εὐφωνία (euphōnía), from εὔφωνος (eúphōnos).

Noun

euphony (countable and uncountable, plural euphonies)

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

Antonyms

• cacophony

Derived terms

• euphonious
• euphonic

See also

• ideophone
• phonaesthesia

Translations

pronunciation which is pleasing to the ear

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: eufonia (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: jóhangzás, eufónia, jó/szép/kellemes hangzás, széphangzás
• Italian: eufonia (it) f
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

pleasant phonetic quality

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: eufonia (fi)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

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• Bulgarian: благозвучие (bg) n (blagozvučie)
• Dutch: eufonie (nl) f, welluidendheid (nl) f
• French: euphonie (fr) f
• Georgian: ევფონია (evponia), კეთილხმოვანება (ḳetilxmovaneba)
• Greek: ευφωνία (el) f (effonía)

  Ancient: εὐφωνία f (euphōnía)

• Italian: eufonia (it) f
• Portuguese: eufonia (pt) f
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• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: благозву́чие (ru) n (blagozvúčije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: blagoglasje (sh) n

• Spanish: eufonía (es) f
• Swedish: eufoni (sv) c
• Tagalog: hunig
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can