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.”
Praetorian (adj) (noun) pri-taw-ree-un of or relating to a praetor (a magistrate in the Roman republic). a soldier of the Praetorian Guard (Roman imperial army) First recorded in 1375–1425; late…
