vocality

[ voh-kal-i-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the fact of being related to, uttered with, or suggestive of the human voice:
Telemann’s oboe concertos explore the vocality of the instrument through a number of movements in recitative, arioso, and aria style.
use of the voice as an aspect of human cultural and social activity; speech or singing:
Vocality is one of the greatest gifts in our possession.
the fact or quality of having a voice of a unique or particular character; a particular way of speaking or singing:
The ethereal quality of the film score is reinforced by the angelic vocality of the singer.
Sometimes vo·cal·ness []. the fact or quality of being able or inclined to express oneself in words:
There are a number of ways you can encourage your child’s vocality and help coax the words out.
Phonetics.
1. the fact or quality of being a vowel or like a vowel:
  Determining the vocality of the second element in these Lithuanian diphthongs is key for the question of syllable structure.
2. (of a consonant) the fact or quality of being voiced, or involving vibration of the vocal cords:
  Every consonant, made with or without vocality, derives its character from obstructive action by the organs of the mouth.

The exercises for the radical stress should be first aspirated, then repeated with full vocality.

Impure vocality, it is true, has its own appropriate use, in the representation of certain emotional states of the mind.

Should any breath be spent in aspiration, or in hissing, or in guttural enunciation, the vocality is said to be impure.

This, pitched on a flat and haughty level of vocality, was her method of opening the conversation.

Somehow that awful vocality and the hardly less agonizing accompaniment had to be paid for.

Browse