English noun: dissonance | |||
| 1. | dissonance (state) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | ||
| Synonyms | disagreement, dissension | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | conflict | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | disunity, divide | ||
| Antonyms | accord, agreement | ||
| 2. | dissonance (cognition) the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience | ||
| Samples | Modern music is just noise to me. | ||
| Synonyms | noise, racket | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | auditory sensation, sound | ||
| 3. | dissonance (attribute) disagreeable sounds | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | sound property | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cacophony, discord, discordance, disharmony, inharmoniousness | ||
| Antonyms | harmony | ||