Both Uses of
dissonance
in
The Hidden Oracle
- It bounced off the ant's forehead with a dissonant twang.†
p. 229.5 *dissonant = not going well together or conflicting
- The brass chimes swayed and clanged, picking notes out of the wind and making chords from the dissonance.†
p. 303.9dissonance = not going well together or conflict
Definitions:
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(1)
(dissonance) not going well together; or conflictespecially 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")
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus