gutturality

English

Etymology

guttural +‎ -ity

Noun

gutturality (countable and uncountable, plural gutturalities)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being guttural.
   • 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:

     gh was a reinforcement of the old gutturality of h

2. (countable) An instance of being guttural.
   • 1988, Loup Durand, Daddy‎^[1]:

     Quartermain launched into another effusion of fractured French mingled with made-up words resembling the singsong gutturalities of the Swedish actress with whom he'd spent a delightful weekend at Palm Springs last year.

References

“gutturality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.