[f. STRIDENT: see -ENCY.] The quality of being strident.
1865. Even. Standard, 6 June. A peculiar stridency characterised the voice of the assailant [i.e., the assassin of Mr. Seward].
1883. Besant, All in Garden Fair, II. i. The piano … required now the most delicate fingering to keep down the stridency of age.
