Dissonance (noun)
dis-o-nans
Lack of harmony among musical notes.
Lack of agreement or harmony between people or things.
Late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin dissonantia, from Latin dissonant- ‘disagreeing in sound’, from the verb dissonare.
Example sentences
“Sadly it was a chorus of jangling dissonances.”
“We can’t tolerate this dissonance among our followers.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)