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Meanings of loudness in English

Catalan
enfarfec
Spanish
ordinariez

Tasteless showiness.

      enfarfec
      Portuguese
      volume
      Catalan
      força
      Spanish
      volumen

      The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)

          volume
          Russian
          уровень громкости звука
          Portuguese
          volume
          Spanish
          volumen
          Catalan
          volum

          Subjective perception of sound pressure.

                уровень громкости звука
                Usage of loudness in English
                1
                It was one-eyed, and vomited smoke, and it snorted with exceeding loudness.
                Children of the Frost
                2
                Accuracy of aim was not so much considered as loudness of report.
                A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paragua...
                3
                Not that she wished to do so by any loudness of assertion.
                The Custom of the Country
                4
                So, too, loudness, softness, crescendo, diminuendo, volume, piercingness, have their emotional accompaniments.
                The Psychology of Beauty
                5
                In this case, attention to voice while ignoring sound loudness increased neural selectivity.
                Pubmed
                6
                The shouts and cries of the terrified settlers increased in loudness.
                Afar in the Forest
                7
                Hundreds of years changed at the arrival of that crude loudness.
                Iron Council
                8
                The detonations from the volcano far exceed in loudness any other earthly noise.
                Wonders of Creation: A Descriptive Account of Volcanoes and Thei...
                9
                They proved very effective, especially in the loudness of the report when fired.
                James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
                10
                A great temporary crisis can only be met by a great temporary loudness.
                Crowds / A Moving-Picture of Democracy
                11
                Giacomo appropriated the discovery, perforce of loudness, after the fashion of his sex.
                Vittoria — Volume 2
                12
                His voice seemed designed not to win friends-harsh ,slightlygrating, tending toward loudness.
                Blood music
                13
                The entry gate to Tory Hill clicked behind him with curious, lonely loudness.
                The Street Called Straight
                14
                Their very voices, he said, had a loudness and force that wore him.
                The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2
                15
                It's got volume control, so little ears are protected from loudness.
                Wired
                16
                Dake nodes.' Then with sudden loudness and decision: 'But this down.'
                Despair's Last Journey