phonaesthetics

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From phon- +‎ aesthetics.

Noun

phonaesthetics (uncountable)

  1. The study of phonaesthesia.
  2. The study of euphony.
  4. (conlanging) The aesthetics of a language's phonology, or the study or construction thereof.
    • 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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