loudness
noun
loud·ness
ˈlau̇d-nəs 
: the attribute of a sound that determines the magnitude of the auditory sensation produced and that primarily depends on the amplitude of the sound wave involved
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In addition to their red, yellow and white team attire, both children wore headphones to protect their ears from the loudness of the stadium.
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Angel Saunders, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Many of our studies focus on memory for music, demonstrating that people have a remarkable ability to recall melodies, pitch, tempo, and loudness with surprising accuracy, even without formal music training, suggesting that musical memory operates differently from other forms of memory.
—Lindsay A. Fleming, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
The current global disorder is a product of systems that prioritize short-term gains over long-term stability, reward division over unity, and mistake loudness for leadership.
—Jeremy Gilley, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
Advanced systems like those used by NBC often include phoneme-level alignment to capture individual sounds of speech and prosody modeling to mimic human pitch, loudness, tempo, and rhythm.
—Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
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Angel Saunders, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Many of our studies focus on memory for music, demonstrating that people have a remarkable ability to recall melodies, pitch, tempo, and loudness with surprising accuracy, even without formal music training, suggesting that musical memory operates differently from other forms of memory.
—Lindsay A. Fleming, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
The current global disorder is a product of systems that prioritize short-term gains over long-term stability, reward division over unity, and mistake loudness for leadership.
—Jeremy Gilley, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
Advanced systems like those used by NBC often include phoneme-level alignment to capture individual sounds of speech and prosody modeling to mimic human pitch, loudness, tempo, and rhythm.
—Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for loudness
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“Loudness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loudness. Accessed 6 Sep. 2025.
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