dissonance
English
Etymology
From Latin dissonantia via Middle French.
Pronunciation
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Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
dissonance (countable and uncountable, plural dissonances)
- A harsh, discordant combination of sounds.
- (music) Conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding.
- A state of disagreement or conflict.
- (countable) An instance of disharmony or disjunction; a clash.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 106:
- In this polyphony of images in the unconscious which is beyond and outside historical time, there are complex harmonies but no dissonances: the images do not clash, but that, of course, is an aesthetic judgment and not a scientific one.
Derived terms
Translations
a harsh, discordant combination of sounds
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conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding
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a state of disagreement or conflict
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See also
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
dissonance f (plural dissonances)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “dissonance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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