Wondering how to use Dissonance in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as disagreement or sound.
Dissonance meaning
- A harsh, discordant combination of sounds.
- Conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding.
- A state of disagreement or conflict.
Synonyms of Dissonance
Using Dissonance
- The main meaning on this page is: A harsh, discordant combination of sounds. | Conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding. | A state of disagreement or conflict.
- Useful related words include: disagreement, sound property, auditory sensation, sound.
- In the example corpus, dissonance often appears in combinations such as: cognitive dissonance, dissonance and, dissonance between.
Context around Dissonance
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dissonance
- In this selection, "dissonance" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cognitive, welcome, collective, political and quartet stand out and add context to how "dissonance" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a similar dissonance when she and a welcome dissonance and fueling. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dissonance" sits close to words such as aac, abdallah and abdication, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dissonance
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The cognitive dissonance is astounding. (5 words)
We can find resonance in dissonance. (6 words)
It’s a strange form of cognitive dissonance. (8 words)
Even though their music wasn’t as fast as Dundrum, Pain Thinner carried the pit well with a heavy moaning guitar and a high-pitched tone from the singer, creating a welcome dissonance and fueling the musical chaos. (38 words)
For all the work we've done as a society towards recognizing that fatness isn't a moral failing, in a display of tremendous, collective dissonance, we still view thinness as a moral good. (34 words)
Where there’s evidence of cognitive dissonance—and a family member voting for someone seeking to harm people they love is certainly evidence of cognitive dissonance—there’s also an opportunity. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Where there’s evidence of cognitive dissonance—and a family member voting for someone seeking to harm people they love is certainly evidence of cognitive dissonance—there’s also an opportunity.
Dissonance is becoming a hallmark of the 21st century.
Even though their music wasn’t as fast as Dundrum, Pain Thinner carried the pit well with a heavy moaning guitar and a high-pitched tone from the singer, creating a welcome dissonance and fueling the musical chaos.
For all the work we've done as a society towards recognizing that fatness isn't a moral failing, in a display of tremendous, collective dissonance, we still view thinness as a moral good.
I challenge you to read his report without experiencing cognitive dissonance and throwing up your hands thinking the genie is already out of a million bottles.
It’s at the center of Winner’s final film, “The Boy,” a hauntingly beautiful short that captures the dissonance of life along the Israel-Gaza border.
The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
The recently lifted weight from your shoulders will make you feel like you conquered the planetary dissonance and this confidence will ensure that you ace your midterms, Virgo.
We can find resonance in dissonance.
Addressing a media conference here, the CEC, to a question on the perceived delay in holding Assembly elections in J&K, cited the “dissonance”.
All these women are tent poles holding aloft their respective clans against the lashings of social dissonance, political uncertainty and the discrepancy in wealth that would engulf them if left unchecked.
But you can easily understand the cognitive dissonance some were experiencing at the time.
Cognitive dissonance can be exhausting, and there’s a lot of that going around the herd these days.
It’s a strange form of cognitive dissonance.
Jack Davy, a British curator, miniature dissonance to criticize the practice of exhibiting them all together with little context, like souvenirs on a table.
Julia Roupe, a senior at BU, said she experienced a similar dissonance when she first started her office job in Brookline.
Our acceptance of capital punishment is another example of the horrifying cognitive dissonance that infects much of this country.
That was the vatnik heads exploding with the cognitive dissonance.
The program features Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet (don’t worry, it’s not that dissonant) and Franz Schubert’s fiery farewell to the form, his G-Major Quartet.
This betrays either widespread confusion about Church teaching, the emotional and psychological effects of cognitive dissonance, or both.
Common combinations with dissonance
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- cognitive dissonance 33×
- dissonance and 8×
- dissonance between 7×
- dissonance that 6×
- the dissonance 5×
- dissonance is 4×
- dissonance of 4×
- and dissonance 4×
- dissonance to 3×
- dissonance or 2×