consonance

English

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin consonantia.

Noun

consonance (countable and uncountable, plural consonances)

Examples (prosody)
lady lounges lazily, dark deep dread crept in

1. (prosody) The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance.
2. (chiefly music) Harmony; agreement; lack of discordance.
   • 1865, John Tyndall, On Radiation: The "Rede" Lecture, Delivered in the Senate-house Before the University of Cambridge on Tuesday, May 16, 1865, page 33

     Like a musical string, the optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance, while it refuses to be excited by others of almost infinitely greater energy, whose period of recurrence are not in unison with its own.

Antonyms

• dissonance
• discordance

Translations

the repetition of consonant sounds

• Bulgarian: съзвучие (bg) n (sǎzvučie)
• French: consonance (fr) f
• Hungarian: konszonánc, mássalhangzós asszonánc
• Maori: orokatirua, orokati tārua
• Russian: созву́чие (ru) n (sozvúčije), консона́нс (ru) m (konsonáns)

music harmony; agreement

• Bulgarian: съгласие (bg) n (sǎglasie), хармония (bg) f (harmonija)
• French: consonance (fr) f
• Hungarian: összhang (hu), összhangzat (hu)
• Italian: consonanza (it) f
• Portuguese: consonância (pt) f
• Russian: созву́чие (ru) n (sozvúčije), консона́нс (ru) m (konsonáns), согла́сие (ru) n (soglásije), гармо́ния (ru) f (garmónija)
• Swedish: konsonans (sv), samklang (sv) c
• Ukrainian: співзву́ччя n (spivzvúččja)

References

• Lakefield College School Key Literary Terms

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

consonance f (plural consonances)

1. consonance
2. the oral impression, usually referring to languages

   un accent à consonance espagnole

Further reading

• “consonance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.