Word Meanings - DISSONANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISSONANCE)

• Difference
• Separation
• destruction
• dissimilarity
• unlikeness
• disagreement
• dissonance
• discord
• contrariety
• dissent
• distinction
• dissimilitude
• estrangement
• variety
• Discrepancy
• Dissonance
• disharmony
• difference
• variation
• Diversity
• multiformity
• heterogeneousness

Related words: (words related to DISSONANCE)

• DISCORDABLE
  That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Halliwell.
• VARIATION
  Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc. (more info) 1. The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation;
• CONTRARIETY
  1. The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism. There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the senses. South. 2. Something which is contrary to,
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• DISSENTIVE
  Disagreeing; inconsistent. Feltham.
• DISSENTIATE
  To throw into a state of dissent. Feltham.
• DISTINCTION
  1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from
• DISSENTIOUS
  Marked by dissensions; apt to breed discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious. -- Dis*sen"tious*ly, adv.
• DIFFERENCE
  An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See Augmentation, and Marks of cadency, under Cadency. (more info) 1. The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or
• DISCORDOUS
  Full of discord.
• DISCORDANCE; DISCORDANCY
  State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor.
• DISSENTERISM
  The spirit or principles of dissenters. Ed. Rev.
• MULTIFORMITY
  The quality of being multiform; diversity of forms; variety of appearances in the same thing. Purchas.
• DESTRUCTIONIST
  One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also annihilationist. Shipley. (more info) 1. One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy
• DISSENTATION
  Dissension. W. Browne.
• DISCORDANT
  discordant, F. discordant, p. pr. of discorder, OF. also, descorder. 1. Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce.
• DISSIMILARITY
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms. Sir W. Jones.
• DISSENTIENT
  Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting. -- n.
• DISCORD
  Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. For a discord itself is
• DESTRUCTION
  1. The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation. The Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction. Esth. ix. 5. 'Tis safer to be that
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• SELF-DESTRUCTION
  The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide. Milton.
• CONTRADISTINCTION
  Distinction by contrast. That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South.
• SUBVARIETY
  A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.