Noun: shrillness shril-nus
- The quality of being sharp or harsh to the senses
"the shrillness of her hair colour"
- A harsh, grating, or unpleasantly high-pitched quality, especially of sound or speech
"The shrillness of the alarm clock jolted him awake";
- stridence, stridency
Type of: interest, interestingness, quality, timbre, tone
Encyclopedia: Shrillness