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Dissonance - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Dissonance : (noun)
1: a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
[syn: disagreement, dissension] [ant: agreement]
2: 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, racket]
3: disagreeable sounds [ant: harmony]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Dissonance : \Dis"so*nance\, n. [L. dissonantia: cf. F.
dissonance.]
1. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious
combination of sounds; discord.
Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. --Milton.
2. Want of agreement; incongruity. --Milton.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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Example Usage of Dissonance |
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Sheq: @MandrewB Martha? Shit?? You is crazy! Wonderful Dissonance. |
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h4nchan: Humph. Feel jolly strange seeing so many pics of Britany Murphy - always so effervescent, sparkling, and now dead. Cognitive Dissonance! :( |
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mkpheartsnyc: @Spidey004 I'm torn between wanting some, and not wanting the cognitive Dissonance of straight men noticing my shoes |
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