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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

dissonance
    n 1: a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
         [syn: disagreement, dissension, dissonance] [ant:
         accord, agreement]
    2: the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality;
       sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern
       music is just noise to me" [syn: noise, dissonance,
       racket]
    3: disagreeable sounds [ant: harmony]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Dissonance \Dis"so*nance\, n. [L. dissonantia: cf. F.
   dissonance.]
   1. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious
      combination of sounds; discord.
      [1913 Webster]

            Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Want of agreement; incongruity. --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for dissonance:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

antagonism, argumentation, atonalism, atonality, cacophony, clashing, clinker, conflict, contention, contradiction, contrariety, contrast, controversy, departure, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, disharmony, disparity, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissonancy, dissonant chord, distinction, distinctness, disunion, disunity, divergence, divergency, diversity, faction, far cry, flatness, heterogeneity, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, irreconcilability, jarring, mixture, negation, nonconformity, odds, off note, opposition, oppugnancy, otherness, repugnance, separateness, sharpness, sour note, sourness, stridor, strife, tunelessness, unconformity, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unmusicality, unorthodoxy, untunefulness, variance, variation, variegation, variety, wolf

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