dissonance Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
    disagreement; dissension.
  2. noun the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
    racket; noise.
    • modern music is just noise to me
  3. noun disagreeable sounds

WordNet

Dis"so*nance noun
Etymology
L. dissonantia: cf. F. dissonance.
Definitions
  1. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.
    Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. Milton.
  2. Want of agreement; incongruity. Milton.

Webster 1913