phonaesthetic

English

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Etymology

From phon- +‎ aesthetic.

Adjective

phonaesthetic (comparative more phonaesthetic, superlative most phonaesthetic)

  1. Exhibiting phonaesthesia.
    • 2015, David J. Peterson, The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building, page 32f:
      In addition to the history of cultural stereotyping, which certainly plays a role, it’s the comparison of entire sound systems that produces a phonaesthetic character in the mind of the listener: the sounds present, the way they’re combined, the intonational phrasing, and the rate of speech—plus a number of sociological factors.
  2. Euphonious.
  3. (conlanging) Of or relating to phonaesthetics (aesthetics of phonology).
    • 1999 December 3, Ed Heil <edheil@postmark.net>, “Re: The Conlang Instinct”, in Conlang mailing list‎[1], via listserv.brown.edu:
      Indeed, if there is anything at all to phonaesthetics, there must be some nonarbitariness to phonetic structure -- at least to people who have some phonaesthetic perceptions (as people on this list have admitted they have), if not to everyone.

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