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con·so·nance
\ˈkän(t)s(ə)nən(t)s\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin consonantia, from consonant-, consonans + -ia -y
1. : harmony of parts : pleasing, desired, or logical agreement among components
< consonance of thought and expression >
< the literary conceptions which prevailed were in consonance with the social structure — V.F.Calverton >
< she spoke with an angry … vehemence that was strangely out of consonance with her ordinary serenity of demeanor — William Black >
2.
a. : correspondence of sounds : recurrence of like or similar sounds : accord
< a pleasing consonance among final syllables >
— compare assonance
b. : a combination of musical tones felt as satisfying and restful; specifically : an interval included in a major or minor triad and its inversions — compare dissonance
c. : sympathetic vibration : resonance — used by some to distinguish the sympathetic vibration of independent things (as two musical strings or two electric circuits) from resonance
d. : recurrence or repetition of identical or similar consonants; specifically : correspondence of consonants alone unaccompanied by like correspondence of vowels at the ends of two or more syllables, words, or other units of composition — called also consonant-rhyme; compare alliteration, assonance |