'Dissonance' definitions:
Definition of 'dissonance'
From: WordNet
noun
A conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters [syn: disagreement, dissension, dissonance] [ant: accord, agreement]
noun
The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me" [syn: noise, dissonance, racket]
noun
Disagreeable sounds [ant: harmony]
Definition of 'Dissonance'
From: GCIDE
- Dissonance \Dis"so*nance\, n. [L. dissonantia: cf. F. dissonance.]
- 1. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord. [1913 Webster]
- Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Want of agreement; incongruity. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dissonance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- antagonism,
- argumentation,
- atonalism,
- atonality,
- cacophony,
- clashing,
- clinker,
- conflict,
- contention,
- contradiction,
- contrariety,
- contrast,
- controversy,
- departure,
- deviation,
- difference,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disagreement,
- disconformity,
- discongruity,
- discord,
- discordance,
- discordancy,
- discrepancy,
- discreteness,
- disharmony,
- disparity,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- dissimilarity,
- dissonancy,
- dissonant chord,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- disunion,
- disunity,
- divergence,
- divergency,
- diversity,
- faction,
- far cry,
- flatness,
- heterogeneity,
- inaccordance,
- incompatibility,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- inconsonance,
- inequality,
- inharmoniousness,
- inharmony,
- irreconcilability,
- jarring,
- mixture,
- negation,
- nonconformity,
- odds,
- off note,
- opposition,
- oppugnancy,
- otherness,
- repugnance,
- separateness,
- sharpness,
- sour note,
- sourness,
- stridor,
- strife,
- tunelessness,
- unconformity,
- unharmoniousness,
- unlikeness,
- unmusicality,
- unorthodoxy,
- untunefulness,
- variance,
- variation,
- variegation,
- variety,
- wolf