Synonyms for dissonance
ˈdɪs ə nənsdis·so·nance

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1. disagreement, dissension, dissonancenoun

   a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

   Synonyms:
   discrepancy, noise, dissension, racket, discord, variance, disagreement, divergence

   Antonyms:
   harmony

2. noise, dissonance, racketnoun

   the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience

   "modern music is just noise to me"

   Synonyms:
   haphazardness, disagreement, noise, stochasticity, racquet, racket, interference, dissension, fraudulent scheme, disturbance, randomness, illegitimate enterprise

   Antonyms:
   harmony

3. dissonancenoun

   disagreeable sounds

   Synonyms:
   dissension, racket, disagreement, noise

   Antonyms:
   harmony

Matched Categories

1. • Conflict
   • Sound Property

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. dissonancenoun

   Synonyms:
   discord, discordance, harshness, jarring, want of harmony

2. dissonancenoun

   Synonyms:
   disagreement, inconsistency, incongruity

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1. List of paraphrases for "dissonance":

   unconformity, cacophony, discordance

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1. Chuck Schumer:

   Let there be no doubt, these disasters are magnified precisely because of climate change, i can not fathom the level of cognitive dissonance required to schedule these votes one right after the other.

2. Lia Thomas:

   I've thought about long and hard. I think it comes to cowardice. I think it comes to a cult-like mentality. I think these people are brainwashed. They are experiencing truckloads of cognitive dissonance. I talk to many girls outside the swimming pool [at the competition and asked] ‘what is a woman?’ And they literally would not speak. It's really sinister.

3. Jim Vlahos:

   The cognitive dissonance between the minister of education insisting schools are safe and then shutting playgrounds down boggles the mind, there's no rhyme or reason to the outdoor closures.

4. Parker Conrad:

   I think [ADP has] always had a bit of cognitive dissonance about Zenefits. On the one hand, we don’t do payroll—we’re a sales channel for them for payroll. On the other hand, although people think of ADP as a payroll company, they make a lot of money by taking that core payroll business and upselling clients on all of this other stuff, i think what happened for ADP is that at a certain point, their view of us flipped from uncertainty to a decision that they absolutely didn’t like us. Who knows? They might decide in six months to a year, ‘Oh my gosh, this is a mistake, we’d much rather partner with Zenefits—they have a lot of customers in the market, and we don’t want to block ourselves out of all of those customers.’.

5. Mariana Fulger:

   Art is the essence of beauty. The artist, a mute that practiced crying until he managed to shout free of dissonance.