consonance

English

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin consonantia

Noun

consonance (countable and uncountable, plural consonances)

Examples (prosody)
lady lounges lazily, dark deep dread crept in

1. (prosody) The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance.
2. (chiefly music) Harmony; agreement; lack of discordance.
   • Tyndall

     The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance.

Antonyms

• dissonance
• discordance

Translations

the repetition of consonant sounds

• Bulgarian: съзвучие (bg) n (sǎzvučie)
• French: consonance (fr) f

• Russian: созву́чие (ru) n (sozvúčije), консона́нс (ru) m (konsonáns)

music harmony; agreement

• Bulgarian: съгласие (bg) n (sǎglasie), хармония (bg) f (harmonija)
• French: consonance (fr) f

• Italian: consonanza (it) f
• Russian: созву́чие (ru) n (sozvúčije), консона́нс (ru) m (konsonáns), согла́сие (ru) n (soglásije), гармо́ния (ru) f (garmónija)

References

• Lakefield College School Key Literary Terms