Noun: dissonance
| Singular | dissonance |
| Plural | dissonances |
Sample Sentences
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Cognitive dissonance exists when a person possesses two cognitions, one of which is contradictory to the other [1977, Lawrence S. Wrightsman with Kay Deaux, Social Psychology, page 366:]
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In this polyphony of images in the unconscious which is beyond and outside historical time, there are complex harmonies but no dissonances: the images do not clash, but that, of course, is an aesthetic judgment and not a scientific one. [1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 106:]
Nouns inflected like dissonance
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French dissonance, from Latin dissonantia; by surface analysis, dis- + son- + -ance. See: Latin Nouns '
dissonantia'.
Verbs referencing "dissonance"
Finnish Nouns
dissonanssi.