consonance

English

Etymology

From Middle English consonance, from Middle French consonance, from Latin cōnsonantia. Doublet of consonancy. By surface analysis, con- +‎ son- +‎ -ance.

Noun

consonance (countable and uncountable, plural consonances)

Examples (prosody)
lady lounges lazily, dark deep dread crept in

2. (prosody) A form of rhyme having the same consonants but different vowels.

   Synonyms: consonant rhyme, pararhyme

   Antonyms: perfect rhyme, exact rhyme, full rhyme

   Hypernyms: imperfect rhyme; rhyme; concord

   Hyponym: alliteration

   Coordinate terms: assonance, vowel rhyme

4. (chiefly music) Harmony; agreement; absence of discordance.

   Synonyms: concord, concordance

   Antonyms: dissonance, cacophony

   • 1865, John Tyndall, On Radiation: The "Rede" Lecture, Delivered in the Senate-house Before the University of Cambridge on Tuesday, May 16, 1865, page 33

     Like a musical string, the optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance, while it refuses to be excited by others of almost infinitely greater energy, whose period of recurrence are not in unison with its own.

Antonyms

• dissonance
• discordance

Derived terms

• inconsonance

 

Translations

the repetition of consonant sounds

• Bulgarian: съзвучие (bg) n (sǎzvučie)
• French: consonance (fr) f
• Hungarian: konszonánc, mássalhangzós asszonánc
• Maori: orokatirua, orokati tārua
• Russian: созву́чие (ru) n (sozvúčije), консона́нс (ru) m (konsonáns)

music harmony; agreement

• Bulgarian: съгласие (bg) n (sǎglasie), хармония (bg) f (harmonija)
• Czech: souzvuk m
• French: consonance (fr) f
• Hungarian: összhang (hu), összhangzat (hu)
• Italian: consonanza (it) f
• Portuguese: consonância (pt) f
• Russian: созву́чие (ru) n (sozvúčije), консона́нс (ru) m (konsonáns), согла́сие (ru) n (soglásije), гармо́ния (ru) f (garmónija)
• Slovak: súzvuk m
• Swedish: konsonans (sv), samklang (sv) c
• Ukrainian: співзву́ччя n (spivzvúččja)

References

• Lakefield College School Key Literary Terms

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

consonance f (plural consonances)

1. consonance
2. the oral impression, usually referring to languages

   un accent à consonance espagnole

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Further reading

• “consonance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.