Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sibilation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sibilation \Sib`i*la"tion\, n. [L. sibilatio.]
Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a
hiss.
He, with a long, low sibilation, stared. --Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sibilation
n : a fricative sound (especially as an expression of
disapproval); "the performers could not be heard over the
hissing of the audience" [syn: {hiss}, {hissing}]
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