nasality

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He added, “It definitely does have some of the Sinatra characteristics, but there’s a little nasality in there, and it’s when the singer becomes nasal that I start to hear that it’s not Frank.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2020

He consults a speech therapist, who gives him exercises to reduce his nasality and elongation of vowels.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2015

Oliver is a plainly gripping singer, his nasality helping him cut through the clatter.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2011

Yet the two are instantly doing dueling Michael Caines: Coogan emphasizing Caine's nasality, Brydon the lower, slower diction that comes from decades of "all the cigars and brandy."

From Time • Jun. 10, 2011

As for the fault of nasality, it is, as I have said, the most difficult to get rid of.

From Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing by Caruso, Enrico