Word of the Day – Dissonance

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.”