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Noun: fricativeness
  1. (phonetics) The quality of being produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality, as the English /f/ and /s/.
    "For the former, the fricativeness of the breath is audible from the throat, through the oral configuration; for the latter, the breath-friction is audible only from the lip."

Type of: phonetic property

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friar
friar preacher
friar's lantern
friar's-cowl
friary
fribble
fricandeau
fricassée
fricative
fricative consonant
fricativeness
Frick
friction
friction clutch
friction match
friction prop
friction tape
friction yielding prop
frictional
frictionless
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