Dissonance

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  • noun. A harsh, disagreeable combination of sounds; discord.
  • noun. Lack of agreement, consistency, or harmony; conflict.
  • noun. A combination of tones contextually considered to suggest unrelieved tension and require resolution.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The quality or fact of being dissonant; an inharmonious mixture or combination of sounds; harshness of combined sounds; discord.
  • noun. Specifically— In music: The combination of tones that are so far unrelated to each other as to produce beats: distinguished from consonance. See beat, n.
  • noun. The interval between two such tones. See discord.
  • noun. Discord in general; disagreement; incongruity; inconsistency.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.
  • noun. Want of agreement; incongruity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a harsh, discordant combination of sounds
  • noun. conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding
  • noun. a state of disagreement or conflict
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
  • noun. the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
  • noun. disagreeable sounds
  • Word Usage
    "The reason for this dissonance is the loophole larded corporate tax code here in America."
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