"microtonality" meaning in All languages combined

See microtonality on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: microtonalities [plural]
Etymology: microtonal + -ity Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|microtonal|ity}} microtonal + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} microtonality (countable and uncountable, plural microtonalities)
  1. (music) The use of microtones in composition. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Music Related terms: microtonal, microtonally, microtone
    Sense id: en-microtonality-en-noun-peQzjR2d Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ity Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for microtonality meaning in All languages combined (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "microtonal",
        "3": "ity"
      },
      "expansion": "microtonal + -ity",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "microtonal + -ity",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "microtonalities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "microtonality (countable and uncountable, plural microtonalities)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ity",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Music",
          "orig": "en:Music",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 June 23, Allan Kozinn, “Finding Inspiration in an Unlikely Place”, in New York Times",
          "text": "[…] he proved that microtonality and the angular vocal and instrumental lines that typically evoke modernist angst can just as easily create manic comedy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The use of microtones in composition."
      ],
      "id": "en-microtonality-en-noun-peQzjR2d",
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "microtone",
          "microtone"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) The use of microtones in composition."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "microtonal"
        },
        {
          "word": "microtonally"
        },
        {
          "word": "microtone"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "microtonality"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "microtonal",
        "3": "ity"
      },
      "expansion": "microtonal + -ity",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "microtonal + -ity",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "microtonalities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "microtonality (countable and uncountable, plural microtonalities)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "microtonal"
    },
    {
      "word": "microtonally"
    },
    {
      "word": "microtone"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ity",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Music"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 June 23, Allan Kozinn, “Finding Inspiration in an Unlikely Place”, in New York Times",
          "text": "[…] he proved that microtonality and the angular vocal and instrumental lines that typically evoke modernist angst can just as easily create manic comedy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The use of microtones in composition."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "microtone",
          "microtone"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) The use of microtones in composition."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "microtonality"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-06 using wiktextract (372f256 and 664a3bc). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.