dissonance
dis·so·nance
noun
1.
a conflict of people''s opinions or actions or characters
2.
the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
- “modern music is just noise to me”
3.
disagreeable sounds
Origin
Borrowed from Middle French dissonance, from Latin dissonantia; by surface analysis, dis- + son- + -ance.
Phrases
- cognitive dissonance
- critical dissonance
- lyrical dissonance
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