From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Euphony \Eu"pho*ny\, noun; pl. {Euphonies}. [L. euphonia, Gr. ?, fr. ? sweet-voiced; e'y^ well + ? sound, voice; akin to ? to speak: cf. F. euphonie.] A pleasing or sweet sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear. ||
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds; "he fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes" [syn: {music}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "euphony": accord, accordance, attune, attunement, balance, beauty, chime, chiming, concentus, concert, concinnity, concord, concordance, consonance, consonancy, consort, diapason, equilibrium, harmonics, harmony, heavy harmony, homophony, measure, measuredness, monochord, monody, order, orderedness, proportion, rhythm, sweetness, symmetry, symphony, synchronism, synchronization, three-part harmony, tune, unison, unisonance
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