tonality

Other forms of tonality

plural

tonalities·

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 tonality

What does tonality mean?

tonality means "any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music".

How many syllables are in tonality?

tonality has 4 syllables: to-nal-i-ty. The stress falls on "nal". In IPA it is /toʊˈnæləti/.

What is another word for tonality?

Close synonyms include key. 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.

What is the opposite of tonality?

The recorded antonyms are atonality.

Is tonality a common word?

tonality 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.

What rhymes with tonality?

5 words rhyme with tonality. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.