hushing

1. 1.

   a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)

   “the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience”

   Synonymshisshissingfizzlesibilation

   Broadernoise

Other forms of hushing

plural

hushings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hushing

What does hushing mean?

hushing means "a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)".

How many syllables are in hushing?

hushing has 2 syllables: hu-shing. The stress falls on "hu".

What is another word for hushing?

Close synonyms include hiss, hissing, fizzle, sibilation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hushing a common word?

hushing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.