Dissonance has several meanings, all related to conflict or incongruity:
- Consonance and dissonance in music are properties of an interval or chord
- Cognitive dissonance is a state of mental conflict. Conflict is a state of discord caused by the actual or perceived opposition of Needs values and interests In Psychology, cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling or stress caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously
- Dissonance in poetry is the deliberate avoidance of assonance, i. Assonance is repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within Phrases or Sentences, and together with Alliteration e. patterns of repeated vowel sounds. Dissonance in poetry is similar to cacophony and the opposite of euphony.
Dictionary
dissonance
-noun
- 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
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