sound symbolism
noun Linguistics.
a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
Origin of sound symbolism
First recorded in 1875–80
Words nearby sound symbolism
sound recordist,
sound shift,
sound spectrogram,
sound spectrograph,
sound stage,
sound symbolism,
sound system,
sound truck,
sound wave,
sound-and-light,
sound-and-light show