dissonance
dis uh nuhns
- n a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
- n the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
- n disagreeable sounds
- It augurs well for demoncracy that we see dissonance and rhetoric in street corner election meetings.
- Unable to attract the attention of the evening revelers the band resorted to noise and dissonance.
- In this age of dissonance it is rare to be blessed with an attitude of accommodation and a readiness to hear a contrary view.