noun
- the quality of having a deep, reverberating, and often mournful sound
Usage: literary
Examples
- The plangency of the church bells echoed across the valley.
- Her voice had a haunting plangency that moved the audience to tears.
- The cello’s plangency filled the concert hall with melancholy.
- The plangency of the foghorn warned ships of the rocky coast.
- There was a deep plangency in his words that revealed his grief.
- The plangency of the wind through the canyon created an eerie atmosphere.