A cacophony is a harsh mixture of loud unpleasant sounds. A cacophony of horns, the cacophony died down, a cacophony of voices.
It nearly always takes of and is used as much of arguments as of noise, since a cacophony of opinions is one nobody can hear through. The Greek is simply bad sound, and its opposite is euphony.
1nouncacophonyA harsh mixture of loud unpleasant sounds.
“The market was a cacophony of shouting traders, barking dogs and car horns.”
cacophony is a noise.
The Greek parts are bad and sound. A cacophony is bad sound, all of it arriving at once.
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Greek kakophonia joins kakos, bad, and phone, sound.
French
cacophonie
English, today
cacophony
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From French cacophonie. From French cacophonie, from Ancient Greek κακοφωνία, from κακός (“bad”) + φωνή (“sound”), equivalent to caco- + -phony.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA