I am buying a music related gift for someone and having it engraved, so I can't be too wordy.
The phrase I'm thinking about is
Your compassion resonates loudly, Thank you.
What I am trying to convey is I am grateful for their compassion and kindness they have shown me and won't soon be forgotten. I'm using resonates and loudly due to the music theme as it make sense with what the gift is. But does resonate make sense this way?
It doesn't seem quite right to me.
"Resonate" means to produce a sound through vibration. In both a literal and figurative sense, it really describes how far sound, or whatever it is describing, reaches - not how loud it is. In a literal example, a loud noise may not resonate outdoors, but the same loud noise may resonate inside an empty space where there are walls to bounce off.
When we speak of something 'resonating' in a figurative sense, we normally mean it has a far reach, or a powerful effect that continues with us, or perhaps that it is enduring, like something that resonates or reverberates.
It might be better to simply say:
Your compassion resonates.
Or, if you must use an adverb,
Your compassion resonates strongly.
