Pronunciation IPA(key): /ˈvɔɪsɪŋ/ Rhymes: -ɔɪsɪŋ Etymology 1 From voice + -ing. Verb voicing present participle and gerund of voice Etymology 2 From voice + -ing. Noun voicing (plural voicings) (music) The final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument. (music) A particular arrangement of notes to form a chord. (phonetics) The articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate. (phonetics, phonology) A classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration. (phonology) A phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one. Synonym: sonorization Antonyms: devoicing, surdization A sound made by the voice; vocalization. 1900, Valentine Brown, “The Fisherman's Last Drift”, in Poems:Shrill voicings of seagulls 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 250:Pete dressed Eddie's high-pitched voicings in the stick-sweet strings of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Derived terms devoicing, de-voicingrevoicing, re-voicing Related terms devoice, de-voicerevoicerrevoice, re-voiceunvoice, unvoicingvoicevoiced → voicednessvoiceless → voicelessnessvoicening Translations music: final regulation of the pitch and tone Finnish: virittäminen (fi) music: particular arrangement of notes to form a chord Finnish: soinnutus (fi) Japanese: ボイシング (boishingu) phonetics: articulatory process Finnish: soinnuttaminen (fi) French: voisement (fr) m Hungarian: zöngésülés, zöngésedés (becoming voiced), zöngésítés (making another sound voiced) Russian: озвонче́ние (ru) n (ozvončénije) phonetics: classification of speech sounds Chinese: Mandarin: 清濁/清浊 (zh) (qīngzhuó) Finnish: sointi (fi) Hungarian: zöngésség (hu), zönge (hu) Japanese: 清濁 (ja) (せいだく, seidaku) Russian: зво́нкость (ru) f (zvónkostʹ) phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one Finnish: soinnillistuminen French: voisement (fr) m, sonorisation (fr) f Polish: udźwięcznienie n Spanish: sonorización (es) f See also accordatura