consonance
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Latin consonantia
Noun [edit]
consonance (plural consonances)
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lady lounges lazily, dark deep dread crept in |
- (prosody) The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance.
- (chiefly music) harmony; agreement; lack of discordance
- Tyndall
- The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance.
- Tyndall
Translations [edit]
music harmony; agreement
