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. Omar Farah:

   There is this profound dissonance between what the administration is saying about its desire to close Guantanamo and what is it actually doing, and it's the administration's actions that actually count.

2. 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.’.

3. Marina Ovsyannikova:

   I have been feeling a cognitive dissonance, more and more, between my beliefs and what we say on air, the war was the point of no return, when it was simply impossible to stay silent.

4. David Sharp:

   Hunters try to kill the deer with the largest antlers, fishermen tell stories of their biggest catch, and we sensationalize even the act of dieting by hosting reality TV shows such as The Biggest Loser, when we are bombarded with the appeal of getting things bigger or larger, it creates a bit of dissonance that the message for our most intimate choices such as our meals, our plates and our bodies runs opposite to our culture of plenty when considering long-term health and wellness.

5. Rohini Haar:

   I think in the U.S. the culture has been more of trusting health workers, there hasn’t been a longstanding conflict where there’s been a dissonance between health workers and the community.