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Word | Dissonance |
a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters / a conflict of people''s opinions or actions or characters / A mingling of discordant sounds / discord; opposite of harmony / lack of harmony among musical notes. / a: lack of agreement; especially : inconsistency between the beliefs one holds or between one's actions and one's beliefs — compare cognitive dissonance b: an instance of such inconsistency or disagreement / a mingling of discordant sounds; especially : a clashing or unresolved musical interval or chord / : inconsistency between the beliefs one holds or between one's actions and one's beliefs—see cognitive dissonance, | |
Usage | ⇒ A note of dissonance was there in their song ⇒ Composer Charles Ives often used dissonance -- clashing or unresolved chords -- for special effects in his musical works. ⇒ the dissonance between what we are told and what we see with our own eyes ⇒ an unusual degree of dissonance for such choral styles |
Synonyms | discord, disagreement, dissension, disharmony, cacophony, discordance, dissidence, conflict, disaccord, discrepancy, noise, antagonism, contention, difference, incongruity, inconsistency, strife, variance, clash, discordancy, |
Antonyms | harmony, accord, agreement, consonance, concord, resonance, coherence, concurrence, confederacy, consistency, discontinuous, peace, peacefulness, symmetry, unity, acceptance, accommodation, accordance, acquiescence, adaptation, |
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