Consonance (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. accord or agreement.
  2. correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.
  3. a simultaneous combination of tones conventionally accepted as being in a state of repose.
  4. Prosody.
    • the correspondence of consonants, especially those at the end of a word, in a passage of prose or verse.
    • the use of the repetition of consonants or consonant patterns as a rhyming device.
  5. the property of two sounds the frequencies of which have a ratio equal to a small whole number.
noun plural -nances or -nancies
  1. agreement, harmony, or accord
  2. similarity between consonants, but not between vowels, as between the s and t sounds in sweet silent thought
  3. music
    • an aesthetically pleasing sensation or perception associated with the interval of the octave, the perfect fourth and fifth, the major and minor third and sixth, and chords based on these intervals
    • an interval or chord producing this sensation
Consonance (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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