Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun stridence

1 sense of stridence

Sense 1
shrillness, stridence, stridency -- (having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound)
       => timbre, timber, quality, tone -- ((music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet")