Synonyms for dissonance


Grammar : Noun
Spell : dis-uh-nuh ns
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɪs ə nəns

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Définition of dissonance

Origin :
  • early 15c., "disagreement," from Middle French dissonance and directly from Late Latin dissonantia, from Latin dissonantem (see dissonant). Figurative use dates from 1875.
  • noun disagreement
  • noun noise, discord
Example sentences :
  • The dissonance is at its highest, yet the hour has struck for the lift of harmony.
  • Extract from : « Child and Country » by Will Levington Comfort
  • There is dissonance from chaos; the song clears as the order begins.
  • Extract from : « Child and Country » by Will Levington Comfort
  • The dissonance between her feelings and her actions troubled her no whit.
  • Extract from : « Captain Desmond, V.C. » by Maud Diver
  • A "Meditation" is bleak, with a strong, free use of dissonance.
  • Extract from : « Contemporary American Composers » by Rupert Hughes
  • They concentrated, tuned, turned their thoughts against the dissonance.
  • Extract from : « Captives of the Flame » by Samuel R. Delany
  • And the dissonance of the complaint jarred her back to common-sense.
  • Extract from : « The Man Who Was Good » by Leonard Merrick
  • Terence Mann stopped playing, tense with a dissonance of perplexity.
  • Extract from : « The Trial of Callista Blake » by Edgar Pangborn
  • Upon his ears a thousand sounds seemed to beat in tumult—and dissonance.
  • Extract from : « The Tempering » by Charles Neville Buck
  • But Nature was just as fair that ambrosial September day as if there was not a dissonance.
  • Extract from : « Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 » by Various
  • There is among the four qualities within his life no dissonance.
  • Extract from : « Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; » by Clark S. Beardslee

Antonyms for dissonance

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