consonance

Noun

Meaning

Alt. of Consonancy

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

agreement correspondence unity accordance harmony compatibility consistency accord parallelism harmoniousness union concord echo harmonics conservancy
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Antonyms

dissonance holocaust period battle stage malice
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Hypernyms

rime harmony rhyme

Phrases with the word

in consonance with

Examples

Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community. Ramana Maharshi

The Law-Giver meant us Muslims to provide for the necessary, additional legislation through the exercise of our Ijtihad (Independent Reasoning) in consonance with the spirit of Islam. Muhammad Asad

Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly. Ilana Mercer

The ethos of science involves the functionally necessary demand that theories or generalizations be evaluated in [terms of] their logical consistency and consonance with facts. Robert K. Merton

A goal can only be reached if the means are in consonance with its essential nature. One will never attain non-violence through violence. Gustav Landauer

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live. Keith Jarrett

Close letter words and terms

consomic consomme Consomol consonancy consonant consonant cluster