Synonyms for dissonance

Grammar : Noun

Spell : dis-uh-nuh ns

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɪs ə nəns

Top 10 synonyms for dissonance

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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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