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dissonance
 
Noun dissonance has 3 senses
  1. disagreement, dissension, dissonance - a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
    --1 is a kind of conflict
    --1 has particulars: disunity; divide
  2. noise, dissonance, racket - the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"
    --2 is a kind of sound, auditory sensation
    --2 has particulars: white noise
    Derived form: verb dissonate2
  3. dissonance - disagreeable sounds
    --3 is a kind of     sound property
    Antonyms: harmony
    --3 has particulars:
     discordance, discord; disharmony, inharmoniousness; cacophony
    Derived form: verb dissonate2
dissolved dissolvent dissolver dissolves dissolves in sunlight dissolving dissolving agent dissonaces dissonance dissonant dissonate dissorance disspassionate disspiate disspiriting dissrupt disssertations

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