counternoise

English

Etymology

From counter- +‎ noise.

Noun

counternoise (plural counternoises)

1. A noise in response or opposition to another noise.
   • 1950, Reprints of the Publication of the Department of Medicine of the University of Chicago, page 72:

     […] the production of counternoises (hissing, booing), over which the listeners at least had control, to drown out the uncontrollable and unintelligible music.