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n. A harsh, disagreeable combination of sounds; discord.

n. Lack of agreement, consistency, or harmony; conflict: "In Vietnam, reality fell away and dissonance between claim and fact filled the void” ( Michael Janeway).

n. Music A combination of tones contextually considered to suggest unrelieved tension and require resolution.

n. a harsh, discordant combination of sounds

n. conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding

n. a state of disagreement or conflict

n. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.

n. Want of agreement; incongruity.

n. The quality or fact of being dissonant; an inharmonious mixture or combination of sounds; harshness of combined sounds; discord.

n. Specifically— In music: The combination of tones that are so far unrelated to each other as to produce beats: distinguished from consonance. See beat, n.

n. The interval between two such tones. See discord.

n. Discord in general; disagreement; incongruity; inconsistency.

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

"The biggest byproduct of this cognitive dissonance is our completely screwed up tax code which is everybody's preferred vehicle for enacting this or that social program which is ostensibly for lower income folks but the value of any "social program" related deduction correlates with one's tax rate."

sound    auditory sensation   

pure dissonance    assonance   

dissonant    cognitive dissonance   

discord    incongruity   

inharmony    discord    cackle    disharmony    counterpoint