Definitions for dissonance

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dissonance dis·so·nance

Spelling: [dis-uh-nuh ns]

IPA: /ˈdɪs ə nəns/

Dissonance is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 638 anagrams from letters in dissonance (acdeinnoss).

Definitions for dissonance

noun

1. inharmonious or harsh sound; discord; cacophony.
2. Music. a simultaneous combination of tones conventionally accepted as being in a state of unrest and needing completion. an unresolved, discordant chord or interval. Compare consonance (def 3).
3. disagreement or incongruity.

Origin of dissonance

1565-75; Late Latin dissonantia, equivalent to disson- (see dissonant) + -antia -ance

Examples for dissonance

There was no camp, kitsch, or dissonance to his pure love of Michael Jackson.

The dissonance is at its highest, yet the hour has struck for the lift of harmony.

These subversive narratives were not the solution I sought to the dissonance between my expected and actual college experience.

There is dissonance from chaos; the song clears as the order begins.

The dissonance between her feelings and her actions troubled her no whit.

Terence Mann stopped playing, tense with a dissonance of perplexity.

A "Meditation" is bleak, with a strong, free use of dissonance.

The darkness and dissonance of these tightly constructed tales reflect something of the political turbulence of Soviet Russia.

And the dissonance of the complaint jarred her back to common-sense.

They concentrated, tuned, turned their thoughts against the dissonance.