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Dissonance

Dissonance Meaning & Definition
Dissonance Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dissonance?

[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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dissonance: disagreement | dissension | noise | racket

Related Terms | Find terms related to Dissonance: 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

See Also | auditory sensation | cacophony | conflict | discord | discordance | disharmony | disunity | inharmoniousness | sound | sound property | white noise

Dissonance In Webster's Dictionary

\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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