vociferousness

noun

Definition of vociferousnessnext
as in stridency

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  1. stridency
  2. insistence
  3. fervor
  4. fervency
  5. ardor
  6. warmth
Noun
  • Elphaba is the one who goes from rejection and sadness to love and stridency and, finally, rage.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Macron’s increasing stridency has surprised even members of his own party.
    Daniel Markind, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of stridency
Noun
  • The filing dissects Geoff’s declarations to an Argentine prosecutor in the days following the singer’s death, pulling out the numerous insistences where the pop star’s father claims that Liam was in Nores’ care.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Dyche, though, was stubborn in his insistence that the Senegal forward was better on the wing and instead persisted with two square pegs in Abdoulaye Doucoure and Dwight McNeil.
    Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of insistence
Noun
  • Both teens separately described similar environments of pro-Palestinian fervor that left them feeling ostracized, particularly when older students with no cultural ties to the Palestinians began to don keffiyehs and accuse Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
    Beth Bailey, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • That’s despite summer record-setters such as Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine and Inside Out 2 and holiday hits such as Wicked, Moana 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Way more sequels are set for 2025, driving business, if not heartfelt fervor.
    David Bloom, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of fervor
Noun
  • The fervency of acclaim that the movie spawned—$1 billion worldwide at the box office and a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars—suggested, somewhat chillingly, that the masses found catharsis in this tale.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
  • There were several questions centered around the fervency of support for each candidate, including on favorability, concerns about age and whether each party’s presumptive nominee should actually be the nominee.
    Philip Bump, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
Definition of fervency
Noun
  • Fearful of looking like bullies, Democrats by and large lost their ardor to block his confirmation.
    Michael Isikoff, airmail.news, 25 May 2024
  • Through thick and thin, a constant for McCann was his ardor for the Phillies, a club that has been in existence for over 140 years, winning a grand total — during that span — of two world championships.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of ardor
Noun
  • But the tease of warmth will only make the extreme cold that follows feel more intense.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Winds from the south resume and bring back the warmth, and a slight chance of showers.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of warmth
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