dissonance : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dissonance	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for dissonance
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dissonance n a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters Synonym(s): disagreement, dissension, dissonance Antonym(s): accord, agreement the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me" Synonym(s): noise, dissonance, racket disagreeable sounds Antonym(s): harmony
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.