mellifluousness
English
editEtymology
editFrom mellifluous + -ness.
Noun
editmellifluousness (uncountable)
- The property of being mellifluous.
- 1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage:
- "You should read Spanish," he said. "It is a noble tongue. It has not the mellifluousness of Italian, Italian is the language of tenors and organ-grinders, but it has grandeur: it does not ripple like a brook in a garden, but it surges tumultuous like a mighty river in flood."