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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")
- It bounced off the ant's forehead with a dissonant twang.p. 229.5
- The brass chimes swayed and clanged, picking notes out of the wind and making chords from the dissonance.p. 303.9
There are no more uses of "dissonance" in The Hidden Oracle.
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