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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

accord, accordance, affinity, agreement, alliteration, assent, assonance, attune, attunement, blank verse, calm, chime, chiming, chorus, clink, coherence, coincidence, compatibility, concentus, concert, concord, concordance, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, consistency, consonancy, consort, constancy, continuity, cooperation, correspondence, crambo, diapason, double rhyme, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, equivalence, euphony, evenness, eye rhyme, harmonics, harmony, heavy harmony, homogeneity, homophony, intersection, monochord, monody, monolithism, near rhyme, oneness, overlap, parallelism, peace, persistence, rapport, rhyme, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme, rhyming dictionary, self-consistency, single rhyme, slant rhyme, stability, steadfastness, steadiness, symmetry, symphony, sync, synchronism, synchronization, tail rhyme, tally, three-part harmony, timing, tune, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, unity, unrhymed poetry, unruffledness

Dictionary Results for consonance:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

consonance
    n 1: the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns)
         especially at the ends of words [syn: consonance,
         consonant rhyme]
    2: the property of sounding harmonious [syn: consonance,
       harmoniousness]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Consonance \Con"so*nance\, Consonancy \Con"so*nan*cy\, n. [L.
   consonantia: cf. F. consonnance.]
   1. (Mus.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced
      simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and
      eighth.
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   2. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency;
      suitableness.
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            The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to
            the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. --Hammond.
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            The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it
            is in consonance.                     --Tyndall.
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   3. Friendship; concord. [Obs.]
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            By the consonancy of our youth.       --Shak.

   Syn: Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony;
        congruity; suitableness; agreeableness.
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