Use consonance to describe a state of agreement or harmony of parts, and is often refers to a pleasing combination of musical sounds.
In its musical sense, the opposite of consonance is dissonance. Consonance can also refer to a repetition of consonants in words that are close together, as the "ck" in "thick sock." In this sense, the opposite is assonance, which is a repetition of vowel sounds, as the "a's" in "bake sale."
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the property of sounding harmonious
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the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
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