Meaning

noun sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)

noun the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience

noun electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

originFrom Middle English noyse, noise, from Old French noise (“a dispute, wrangle, strife, noise”), of uncertain origin. According to some, from Latin nausia, nausea (“disgust, nausea”); according to others, from Latin noxia (“hurt, harm, damage, injury”); but neither explanation is satisfactory in regard to either form or sense. Potentially a reduced form of Old French enoiier (“to bother, to…

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