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Meanings of dissonance in English

Portuguese
discordância
Catalan
desacord

A conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters.

discordância
Portuguese
barulho
Catalan
dissonància
Spanish
ruido

The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience.

barulho
Portuguese
dissonância
Catalan
dissonància

Disagreeable sounds.

dissonância

(Music) An inharmonious combination of musical tones sounded together.

Usage of dissonance in English
1
The cognitive dissonance was enormous, sure, but they were used to that.
Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r...
2
And yet there is no escaping the wider sense of dissonance here.
The Guardian
3
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.
The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
4
I get it; there is a cognitive dissonance here that is understandable.
Ebony
5
Jack never could figure out how Nikitin dealt with the cognitive dissonance.
Stars rain down
6
Occupy Wall Street brought that jarring dissonance into greater relief for Crabapple.
Wired
7
Unless the Lord is King, all must be confusion, dissonance, and disaster.
Our Master: Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord
8
She still had moments of dissonance when she felt like a Westerner.
The favorites: a novel
9
His head teemed with the new dissonance and wailing of modern music.
Prince Lestat
10
Then, from dissonance and incoherence, the music merged into Gounod's Ave Maria.
Black Caesar's Clan : A Florida Mystery Story
11
Though the dissonance between request and reality did not escape him, he complied.
Alien: Covenant
12
As a result, he will experience dissonance - aclashingof two competing messages.
No More Mr. Nice Guy!
13
We should've seen this type of corporate and cognitive dissonance coming.
Wired
14
Inside the building, it is still hard to avoid that feeling of dissonance.
The Guardian
15
The energy in the room converted from expectant to awkward dissonance.
Still alice
16
But the most common reaction is the good old cognitive dissonance.
After the Rain : how the West lost the East
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Translations for dissonance
Spanish
ruido
Dissonance through the time
Dissonance across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common