dissonance
Other forms: dissonances
Disagreeable sounds can be called dissonance. You know it's dissonance if you have the strong desire to cover your ears with your hands.
Racket, noise, dissonance — all can describe sounds that are not pleasant. While some musicians purposely add a little dissonance into their melodies to create an unexpected sound, others, like someone who just started drum lessons, creates dissonance by accident. Dissonance can also be a conflict between people or opinions, like the dissonance you feel when you want to do something but your parents say "no."
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disagreeable soundsantonyms:harmonyan agreeable sound propertytypes:cacophonyloud confusing disagreeable soundstype of:sound propertyan attribute of sound
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the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
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a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characterssynonyms: disagreement, dissension, misunderstanding
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Vocabulary lists containing dissonance
Learn these words that contain the root son, from the Latin verb sonare, "to sound." Here are links to the complete set of Common Senses lists: Hearing: Phon / Aud / Son Sight: Vid, Vis / Spec, Spect, Spic / Op, Ops, Opt Touch: Path / Sent, Sens / Tact, Tang
