Found 3 hits - Term: consonance, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
consonance \con"sonance\, consonancy \con"sonancy\, n. l.
consonantia: cf. f. consonnance.
1. mus. accord or agreement of sounds produced
simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and
eighth.
1913 webster
2. agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency;
suitableness.
1913 webster
the perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to
the doctrines of scripture and antiquity. --hammond.
1913 webster
the optic nerve responds to the waves with which it
is in consonance. --tyndall.
1913 webster
3. friendship; concord. obs.
1913 webster
by the consonancy of our youth. --shak.
syn: agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony;
congruity; suitableness; agreeableness.
1913 webster
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
consonance
n 1: the repetition of consonants or consonant patterns
especially at the ends of words syn: consonant rhyme
2: the property of sounding harmonious syn: harmoniousness
see also:
consonant rhyme harmoniousness
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
89 moby thesaurus words for "consonance":
accord, accordance, affinity, agreement, alliteration, assent,
assonance, attune, attunement, blank verse, calm, chime, chiming,
chorus, clink, coherence, coincidence, compatibility, concentus,
concert, concord, concordance, conformance, conformation,
conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity,
consistency, consonancy, consort, constancy, continuity,
cooperation, correspondence, crambo, diapason, double rhyme,
equability, equanimity, equilibrium, equivalence, euphony,
evenness, eye rhyme, harmonics, harmony, heavy harmony,
homogeneity, homophony, intersection, monochord, monody,
monolithism, near rhyme, oneness, overlap, parallelism, peace,
persistence, rapport, rhyme, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme,
rhyming dictionary, self-consistency, single rhyme, slant rhyme,
stability, steadfastness, steadiness, symmetry, symphony, sync,
synchronism, synchronization, tail rhyme, tally,
three-part harmony, timing, tune, uniformity, union, unison,
unisonance, unity, unrhymed poetry, unruffledness
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