Meaning of DISSONANCE
| Pronunciation: | | 'disununs
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- [n] disagreeable sounds
- [n] the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"
- [n] a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
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| | Synonyms: | | disagreement, dissension, noise, racket |
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| | Antonyms: | | accord, agreement, harmony | | |
| | See Also: | | auditory sensation, cacophony, conflict, discord, discordance, disharmony, disunity, inharmoniousness, sound, sound property, white noise | |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis"so*nance\, n. [L. dissonantia: cf. F.
dissonance.]
1. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious
combination of sounds; discord.
Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. --Milton.
2. Want of agreement; incongruity. --Milton.
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| | Related Terms: | | antagonism, argumentation, atonalism, atonality, cacophony, clashing, clinker, conflict, contention, contradiction, contrariety, contrast, controversy, departure, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, disharmony, disparity, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissonancy, dissonant chord, distinction, distinctness, disunion, disunity, divergence, divergency, diversity, faction, far cry, flatness, heterogeneity, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, irreconcilability, jarring, mixture, negation, nonconformity, odds, off note, opposition, oppugnancy, otherness, repugnance, separateness, sharpness, sour note, sourness, stridor, strife, tunelessness, unconformity, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unmusicality, unorthodoxy, untunefulness, variance, variation, variegation, variety, wolf |
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