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consonanceagreement or harmony between opinions or actions

Part of speech: NOUN

Definition: agreement or harmony between opinions or actions

Pronunciation (IPA): /ˈkɑːnsənəns/

Korean meaning: 의견이나 행동의 일치, 조화

Korean pronunciation: **칸**서넌스

Example Sentences

  • The new employee's work style was in perfect consonance with the company culture.
  • My stomach and my diet plan are never in consonance during pizza night.
  • The orchestra's consonance was so perfect that even the conductor's cat stopped meowing.

consonance

NOUN

//ˈkɑːnsənəns//

agreement or harmony between opinions or actions

consonance concept
💡 Concept

agreement or harmony between opinions or actions

consonance rhyme
🎵 Rhyme

From dissonance through resonance to perfect consonance!

🎤Pronunciation

🇺🇸 US/ˈkɑːnsənəns/
🇬🇧 UK/ˈkɒnsənəns/

🌳Etymology

Prefixcon--
Rootson
Suffix--ance

Origin

From Latin 'consonantia', derived from 'consonans' (sounding together), which combines 'con-' (together) and 'sonans' (sounding, from 'sonare' meaning to sound or resound).

🎵Rhyme

resonanceassonancedissonance
resonance
assonance
dissonance

🔗Collocations

perfect consonance
achieve consonance
consonance with
musical consonance
cultural consonance
lack of consonance

📝Examples

The new employee's work style was in perfect consonance with the company culture.

😄 Fun example

My stomach and my diet plan are never in consonance during pizza night.

😄 Fun example

The orchestra's consonance was so perfect that even the conductor's cat stopped meowing.

There was little consonance between his public statements and private actions.

📚Related Words

Synonyms

harmonyagreementaccordunityconcord

Antonyms

dissonancediscorddisagreement

Related

resonanceassonanceharmonysymphonychord

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