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What is the noun for consonantly?

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consonant
  1. (phonetics) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
  2. A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
  3. Synonyms:
consonance
  1. (prosody) The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance.
  2. (music) Harmony; agreement; lack of discordance.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “It's not going to last forever; I just have a limited amount of time to live in a way that feels satisfying to me, that feels right, that feels in consonance with the way things are.”
      “The cathedral's architecture exhibited a remarkable consonance, with every intricate detail coming together in perfect harmony.”
      “Such a commission can assist those agencies and ensure that their powers are in consonance with the laws and practices of Hong Kong, he said.”
consonantism
  1. The (study of the) consonant sounds of a language
  2. Examples:
    1. “The vocalism and consonantism differentiate the Dacian and Thracian languages.”
consonantness
  1. The state or quality of being consonant.
consonances
  1. plural of consonance
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A couple of kids chimed in and their voices were lost in a huge mumble of slurred vowels and consonances in my scrambled brain.”
      “Any knowledge on modes, scales, intervals, dissonances, consonances, note names, and solmisation for example was superfluous and hence discarded.”
      “Although the sense of hearing recognizes consonances, reason weighs their value.”
consonants
  1. plural of consonant
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There is cross-linguistic evidence for associating anaptyxis-prothesis asymmetries with the nature of the consonants involved in the process.”
      “Peabody's accent was high and aloof, crisp on the vowels and nasally through the consonants.”
      “You don't have to know what they stand for, just so long as you can reel them off without choking on all the consonants.”
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