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Webster 1828 Edition
Consonance
CONSONANCE
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1.
Accord or agreement of sounds. In music, consonance is an accord of sounds which produces an agreeable sensation in the ear, as the third, fifth and eighth. It denotes also the according intervals. When the interval of a consonance is invariable, it is called perfect; but when it may be either major or minor, it is termed imperfect.2.
Agreement; accord; congruity; consistency; agreeableness; suitableness; as the consonance of opinions among judges; the consonance of a ritual to the scriptures.Definition 2024
consonance
consonance
English
Noun
consonance (plural consonances)
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- (prosody) The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance.
- (chiefly music) Harmony; agreement; lack of discordance.
- Tyndall
- The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance.
- Tyndall
Translations
the repetition of consonant sounds
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music harmony; agreement
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