Definition of "melodiousness" [melodiousness]

• The property of being melodious. (noun)

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• "That fine melodiousness, which is one of Spenser's signal characteristics, may be perceived in his"
• "This was an instrument that could sing, and as composer Ferruccio Busoni declared of Mozart's music, an "uninterrupted melodiousness…shimmers through his compositions like the lovely forms of a woman through the folds of a thin dress.""
• "In setting a libretto based on Friedrich Schiller's drama about Switzerland's 14th-century freedom-fighter, Rossini eschewed elaborate vocal ornamentation for expansive melodiousness."