Other forms: resonances
Resonance is a deep ringing quality, or a meaning that echoes. A voice with resonance, the resonance of the phrase, magnetic resonance.
In physics it is exact and dangerous: driving something at its natural frequency makes the movement grow, which is why soldiers break step on a bridge. The figurative sense is a phrase or an image that keeps sounding in the mind after it is heard.
1nounresonanceA deep ringing quality, or a meaning that echoes.
“The cello has a warm resonance that fills the whole hall.”
resonance is a quality.
Latin resonantia means an echo, from resonare, to sound again — re plus sonare, to sound.
Latin
resonantia — echo
Old French
resonance
English, today
resonance
Built from
From Old French resonance (French résonance), from Latin resonantia (“echo”), from resonō (“to resound”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA