Usually means: Excessive hissing sounds in speech.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. sibilance: Merriam-Webster
  2. sibilance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sibilance: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sibilance: Wordnik
  5. sibilance: Wiktionary
  6. sibilance: Dictionary.com
  7. Sibilance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Sibilance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Sibilance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. sibilance: FreeDictionary.org
  11. sibilance: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sibilance: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sibilance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sibilance: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sibilance: The Folk File
  2. sibilance: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sibilance)

noun:  The quality of being sibilant: a hissing quality.

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