English Explanatory Dictionary

sound symbolism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. phonetic symbolism
  2. composed of one or more speech sounds that are associated with the meanings they convey, either intrinsically or by a recurring phono-semantic association
  3. speech sound that is neither arbitrary with respect to meaning nor an onomatopoeia that imitates a real sound
  4. the property of such a sound or sequence of sounds

Word forms

sound symbolism

Synonyms

mimologics phonosemantics phonaesthesia

Related words

sound symbolism in the Wiktionary glossary

Derived words

sound-symbolic
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