English-Thai Dictionary

dissonance

N การ ไม่ กลม กลืนกัน  การ ไม่ ประสานกัน  discord kan-mai-klom-kluen-kan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISSONANCE

n.[L., to be discordant; to sound. ] 1. Discord; a mixture or union of harsh, unharmonious sounds, which are grating or unpleasing to the ear; as the dissonance of notes, sounds or numbers.
2. Disagreement.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DISSONANCE

Dis "so *nance, n. Etym: [L. dissonantia: cf. F. dissonance. ]

 

1. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord. Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. Milton.

 

2. Want of agreement; incongruity. Milton.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dissonance

dis so nance |ˈdisənəns ˈdɪsənəns | ▶noun Music lack of harmony among musical notes: an unusual degree of dissonance for such choral styles | the harsh dissonances give a sound that is quite untypical of the Renaissance. • a tension or clash resulting from the combination of two disharmonious or unsuitable elements: dissonance between campaign rhetoric and personal behavior. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin dissonantia, from Latin dissonant- ‘not agreeing in sound, ’ from the verb dissonare.

 

Oxford Dictionary

dissonance

dissonance |ˈdɪs (ə )nəns | ▶noun [ mass noun ] Music lack of harmony among musical notes: an unusual degree of dissonance for such choral styles | [ count noun ] : a session full of jangling dissonances. • lack of agreement or harmony between people or things: the party faithful might be willing to put up with such dissonance among their candidates. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin dissonantia, from Latin dissonant- ‘disagreeing in sound ’, from the verb dissonare.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

dissonance

dissonance noun 1 there is hardly any dissonance on this album: inharmoniousness, discordance, unmelodiousness, atonality, cacophony; harshness, stridency, grating, jarring. ANTONYMS harmony. 2 there is dissonance between the form and content: incongruity, disparity, discrepancy, disagreement, tension; difference, dissimilarity, variance, inconsistency; contradiction, clash. ANTONYMS harmony; similarity.

 

French Dictionary

dissonance

dissonance n. f. nom féminin Assemblage de sons qui blessent l ’oreille, manque d ’harmonie. Note Orthographique disso n ance.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dissonance

dis so nance /dɪ́s (ə )nəns /名詞 1 U C 〘楽 〙不協和音 (↔consonance ).2 U ｟かたく ｠(意見などの )不調和, 不一致, 不和 (discord, disagreement ).