Meaning & use
Stridency
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The quality of being loud, harsh, and grating, or excessively forceful and insistent in tone.
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The stridency of the debate turned off many undecided voters.
Critics noted the stridency of her tone in the otherwise measured essay.
A note on using this word
Stridency can describe both literal sound, like a harsh noise, and figurative tone, like an aggressively insistent argument.
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