Other forms: dissonances
Dissonance is a clash of sounds or of ideas that will not fit. Musical dissonance, cognitive dissonance, a note of dissonance.
Cognitive dissonance is the famous use and names the discomfort of holding two beliefs that contradict, which people resolve by changing one rather than living with it. In music, dissonance is what makes resolution satisfying.
1noundissonanceA clash of sounds or of ideas that will not fit.
“The composer used dissonance to create a feeling of fear in the film's opening scene.”
dissonance is a clash.
Latin dissonantia comes from dissonare, to sound apart, from dis plus sonare, to sound.
Latin
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Middle French
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English, today
dissonance
Middle French dissonance, from Latin dissonantia; by surface analysis, dis- + sono- + -ance.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA