dissonance
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin dissonantia via Middle French.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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.
Synonyms edit
- See Thesaurus:dispute.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
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
See also edit
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Late Latin dissonantia.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dissonance f (plural dissonances)
- (music) dissonance (conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding)
- Antonyms: consonance, harmonie
- dissonance
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “dissonance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.