Words and phrases that have a meaning related to dissonance: (153 results)
Antonyms:
harmony
Often used in the same context:
plaintiveness, chromaticism, clangor, dichotomy, tonalities, discordance, duality, disjunction, cognitive dissonance, syncopation, atonality, melody, dialectic, sturm und drang, tunefulness, euphony, pensiveness, mournfulness, atmospherics, melancholy, cacophony, juxtaposition, resonances, noisiness, abstractness, hybridity, muddiness, lyricism, portamento, figuration, eclecticism, mozartian, jaggedness, timbres, dreaminess, indeterminacy, melodiousness, rubato, reverberation, artificiality, experimentalism, apollonian, shapelessness, instrumentalism, sunniness, sonority, disjointedness, formalism, minimalism, disconnectedness, solipsism, incoherency, phrasing, sublimity, ethereality, incongruity, cantabile, sostenuto, discords, glissandos, harmonics, cacophonic, embattlement, fortissimo, inwardness, wistfulness, distortion, songlike, contradictions, maximalism, polyrhythm, archaism, ruefulness, mushiness, melancholia, musicality, alterity, harmony, ostinato, emotionalism, emotiveness, tempos, chromatic scale, spareness, arioso, joyousness, palpability, tremolos, rhythms, emotionality, weirdness, polarities, messiness, bombast, felicity, vibrato, alienation, crescendos, rawness, diatonic scale, boomy, toccata, ambiguity, incoherence, confusion, disorientation, dissonances, consonance, discord, disharmony, disjuncture, ambivalence, inconsistency, disagreement, incongruities, embarrassment, handicap, inconsistencies, qualms, ambiguities, arousal, empathy, fear, interference, amnestic, anomic, cognizable, eidetic, friction, hypnosis, induction, isostatic, mentalistic, mesmeric, pairing, referent, shock, stimulation, threat, timeworn
More specific:
inharmoniousness, white noise
Appears in the definition of:
dissonant, edgard varese, preparation, unresolved, varese
More general:
Also try:auditory sensation, sound, sound property
— Adjectives for dissonance: cognitive, cultural, emotional, greater, internal, less, harsh, barbarous, considerable, extreme, sharp, more...
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