consonance
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English
Etymology
From Middle English consonance, from Middle French consonance, from Latin cōnsonantia.[1] Doublet of consonancy. By surface analysis, con- + son- + -ance.
Noun
consonance (countable and uncountable, plural consonances)
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- (prosody) A form of rhyme having the same consonants but different vowels.
- Synonyms: consonant rhyme, pararhyme
- Antonyms: perfect rhyme, exact rhyme, full rhyme
- Hypernyms: imperfect rhyme; rhyme; concord
- Hyponym: alliteration
- Coordinate terms: assonance, vowel rhyme
- (chiefly music) Harmony; agreement; absence of discordance.
- Synonyms: concord, concordance
- Antonyms: dissonance, cacophony
- 1865, John Tyndall, On Radiation: The "Rede" Lecture, Delivered in the Senate-house Before the University of Cambridge on Tuesday, May 16, 1865, page 33
- Like a musical string, the optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance, while it refuses to be excited by others of almost infinitely greater energy, whose period of recurrence are not in unison with its own.
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Translations
the repetition of consonant sounds
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music harmony; agreement
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References
- ^ “consonance, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
French
Pronunciation
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Noun
consonance f (plural consonances)
- consonance
- the oral impression, usually referring to languages
- un accent à consonance espagnole
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Further reading
- “consonance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.