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Consonance definition

kŏnsə-nəns
Agreement; harmony; accord.
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(prosody) Repetition of a consonant sound in stressed syllables in the middle or at the end of words (Ex.: star/door, conceive/behoove)
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Harmony or agreement of elements or parts; accord.
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A pleasing combination of simultaneous musical sounds; harmony of tones.
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(music) A simultaneous combination of sounds not requiring resolution to another combination of sounds for finality of effect and conventionally regarded as harmonious or pleasing.
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Close correspondence of sounds.
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The repetition of consonants or of a consonant pattern, especially at the ends of words, as in blank and think or strong and string.
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The definition of consonance is a pleasing combination of sounds or two things that are in agreement.

An example of consonance is when you have two words that both have a "ch" sound that are right next to each other in a sentence.

An example of consonance is when existing policies on tardiness are in agreement with the new policy on being late or absent.

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(prosody) The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance.
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(chiefly music) Harmony; agreement; lack of discordance.
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Noun

Singular:
consonance
Plural:
consonances

Origin of consonance

  • From Old French, from Latin consonantia

    From Wiktionary

Consonance Sentence Examples

  • In a few ances this may have come about by the emphasizing of a ly primitive trait; as when the wolf Ophois, in consonance I the predatory nature of that animal, developed into a of war.

  • Sedley Taylor, Sound and Music (1882), contains a simple and excellent account of Helmholtz's theory of consonance and dissonance.

  • So far his published views had been in complete consonance with those of the older Tractarians.

  • We can see, too, at once how the octave is such a smooth consonance.

  • There is a total consonance of views on that also.

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