dissonance
noun
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
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Sense 2 noun
the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
modern music is just noise to me
Types & categories
- auditory sensation hypernym
Related & opposite
- disharmonize derivation
- noise derivation
- dissonant derivation
Sense 3 noun
disagreeable sounds
Types & categories
- sound property hypernym
- discordance hyponym
- disharmony hyponym
- cacophony hyponym
Related & opposite
- harmony antonym
- disharmonize derivation
- disharmonious derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | accord |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | disagree |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | conflict |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | disunity |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | divide |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | disharmonize |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | noise |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dissonant |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | auditory sensation |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | harmony |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | disharmonize |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | disharmonious |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound property |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | discordance |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | disharmony |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | cacophony |