dissonance

dissonance
    n 1: a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
         [syn: {disagreement}, {dissension}, {dissonance}] [ant:
         {accord}, {agreement}]
    2: the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality;
       sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern
       music is just noise to me" [syn: {noise}, {dissonance},
       {racket}]
    3: disagreeable sounds [ant: {harmony}]
    

Dissonance \Dis"so*nance\, n. [L. dissonantia: cf. F.
   dissonance.]
   1. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious
      combination of sounds; discord.
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            Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. --Milton.
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   2. Want of agreement; incongruity. --Milton.
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82 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissonance":
      antagonism, argumentation, atonalism, atonality, cacophony,
      clashing, clinker, conflict, contention, contradiction,
      contrariety, contrast, controversy, departure, deviation,
      difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity,
      discongruity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy,
      discreteness, disharmony, disparity, dissension, dissent,
      dissidence, dissimilarity, dissonancy, dissonant chord,
      distinction, distinctness, disunion, disunity, divergence,
      divergency, diversity, faction, far cry, flatness, heterogeneity,
      inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency,
      inconsonance, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony,
      irreconcilability, jarring, mixture, negation, nonconformity, odds,
      off note, opposition, oppugnancy, otherness, repugnance,
      separateness, sharpness, sour note, sourness, stridor, strife,
      tunelessness, unconformity, unharmoniousness, unlikeness,
      unmusicality, unorthodoxy, untunefulness, variance, variation,
      variegation, variety, wolf