gutturality

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English

Etymology

From 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:
      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.