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dissonance
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dissonance
n.
discord, cacophony; difference, inconsistency
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Dissonance
Dissonance has several meanings, all related to conflict or incongruity:
- Consonance and dissonance in music are properties of an interval or chord (the quality of a discord)
- Cognitive dissonance is a state of mental conflict
- Dissonance in poetry is the deliberate avoidance of assonance, i.e. patterns of repeated vowel sounds. Dissonance in poetry is similar to cacophony and the opposite of euphony.
- Dissonance (album), a 2009 album by Enuff Z'Nuff
- Cultural dissonance is an uncomfortable sense experienced by people in the midst of change in their cultural environment.
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dissonance
Noun
1. a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
(synonym) disagreement, dissension
(hypernym) conflict
(hyponym) disunity
2. the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"
(synonym) noise, racket
(hypernym) sound, auditory sensation
(hyponym) white noise
(derivation) dissonate
3. disagreeable sounds
(antonym) harmony
(hypernym) sound property
(hyponym) discordance, discord
(derivation) dissonate
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dissonance
nf.
dissonance, discord, disharmony
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dissonance
Rzecz.
dysonans; niezgodność; rozdźwięk
