noise pollution

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   annoying and potentially harmful environmental noise

   Synonymssound pollution

   Broaderpollution

Questions about noise pollution

What does noise pollution mean?

noise pollution means "annoying and potentially harmful environmental noise".

What is another word for noise pollution?

Close synonyms include sound pollution. 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 noise pollution a common word?

noise pollution 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.