Usually means: Lack of harmony among musical notes.
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  1. dissonance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dissonance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dissonance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dissonance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dissonance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dissonance, dissonance: Wordnik
  7. dissonance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dissonance: Wiktionary
  9. dissonance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dissonance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dissonance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dissonance: Dictionary.com
  13. Dissonance (album), Dissonance (disambiguation), Dissonance (film), Dissonance (music), Dissonance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Dissonance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. dissonance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. dissonance: Rhymezone
  17. Dissonance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. dissonance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. dissonance: Free Dictionary
  20. dissonance: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. dissonance: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)
  5. DISSONANCE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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  2. dissonance: Legal dictionary

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  1. Dissonance (music), dissonance: Encyclopedia

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  3. dissonance: Medical dictionary

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  1. dissonance: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A harsh, discordant combination of sounds.
noun:  (music) Conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding.
noun:  A state of disagreement or conflict.
noun:  (countable) An instance of disharmony or disjunction; a clash.

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