unisonancen.
/juːˈnɪsənəns/, /juːˈnɪsn̩əns/, /jᵿˈnɪsənəns/, /jᵿˈnɪsn̩əns/, U.S. /juˈnɪsənəns/ Identity of pitch or sound; unison. Hence (in extended use): uniformity.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > unison
unisound1599
unison1603
unisonance1653
homophony1776
unbrokenness1849
homophone1879
1653 Ld. Brouncker tr. R. Descartes Excellent Compend. Musick ix. 23 But the sound Cf will not so soone returne to an Unisonance [L. unisonantiam], for that cannot be done but after the second stroke of the sound CD.
1664 G. Havers tr. T. Renaudot et al. Gen. Coll. Disc. Virtuosi France lxv. 395 In Oeconomy as well as Policy, there ought to be a harmony, which consists in diversity, and not in unisonance [Fr. monotonie] or identity, which is every where disagreeable and dull.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Unison What constitutes Unisonance, is the Equality of the Number of Vibrations of the two sonorous Bodies in equal Times.
1851 J. R. Morell tr. C. Fourier Passions Human Soul I. i. ii. v. 116 In all the other accords, and even in those of the eighth or unisonance,..you only act through the medium of the senses.
1860 Brit. Controversialist 3rd Ser. 5 89/2 Hell is a state and not a place, and presence in a state implies unisonance of character or condition with that state.
1911 H. J. Stockard Study Southern Poetry 11 If the unisonance is on the last syllable, the rhyme is masculine, or single.
1944 W. J. Finn Conductor Raises His Baton ii. 30 The stresses and slacks of the poetry demand unisonance with major and minor musical accents.
2009 F. Schulze-Engler in K. Ikas & G. Wagner Communicating in Third Space v. ix. 152 What seems most significant about marginal people is indeed their capacity to unsettle the unisonance of the Western nation state.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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