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Definition
not going well together; or conflict
especially in these two senses:
- unpleasant musical sound
- inconsistency or conflict between beliefs and actions such as voluntarily taking actions that conflict with beliefs, or holding two conflicting beliefs (also called "cognitive dissonance")
- The rock group gyrated to its outer limits, frantic dissonance worthy of the scene.Chapter 1 (58% in)
- Birds flapped above in fear and curiosity; owls hooted in angry dissonance.Chapter 26 (85% in)
There are no more uses of "dissonance" in The Bourne Supremacy.
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