Consonance

Definition: Consonance

Consonance

Noun

1. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words.

2. The property of sounding harmonious.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "consonance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Consonance

Agreement

Conformity; conformance; uniformity; consonance, consentaneousness, consistency; congruity, congruence; keeping; congeniality; correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union.

Uniformity

Noun: uniformity; homogeneity, homogeneousness; consistency; connaturality, connaturalness; homology; accordance; conformity; agreement; consonance, uniformness. regularity, constancy, even tenor,.routine; monotony.

Crosswords: Consonance

French (consonance).

Books

• Coherence, Consonance, and Conversation (reference)

• Consonance and Continuity in Poetry ': Detroit Black Writers (reference)

• Consonance and Dissonance in Music (reference)

• Cosmos As Creation: Theology and Science in Consonance (reference)

• Science and Theology: The New Consonance (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

përputhje (accordance, consistency, correspondence, occlusion, osculation), marrëveshje (accordance, agreement, arrangement, articles, bargain, bond, compact, composition, concert, concord, concordance, concordat, concurrence, contract, convention, covenant, deal, dealings, entente, pact, settlement, stipulation, treaty, tune, undertaking), harmoni (agreement, chime, concord, concordance, congruence, consentaneity, eurhythmics, harmonics, harmony, keeping, thorough bass, unity), bashkëtingëllim harmonik. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تناغم الأصوات (consort), ‏توافق الأنغام (diapason), ‏إنسجام (accord, accordance, agreement, concert, concord, concordance, conformity, congruence, correspondence, curve, exaltation, harmony, smoothness, sympathy, symphony, unison, unity). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съгласие (accord, accordance, agreement, approval, assent, compliance, concert, concord, concurrence, congruence, consensus, consent, consort, fiat, grant, harmony, rapport, sympathy, understanding, union, unison, unity, yea, yes), съзвучие (assonance, harmony, unison), резонанс (resonance), консонанс. (various references)

Czech

souzvuk (chord). (various references)

Farsi 

هم صداءی (Assonance, Unison), هم اهنگی (Accord, Cadence, Concert, Cooridnation, Harmony, Unison), توافق صدا. (various references)

French

consonance. (various references)

German

Gleichlaut, Gleichklang (accord, harmony, unison). (various references)

Greek 

συνήχηση (assonance), συμφωνία (accord, accordance, agreement, arrangement, compact, concord, concordance, concurrence, conformity, deal, pact, stipulation, symphony). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"צלל�" ערב�". (various references)

Hungarian

együtthangzás (consonancy, resonance, unison), megegyezés (accord, accordance, agreement, arrangement, coincidence, concurrence, congruence, consensus, consilience, consistence, consistency, consonancy, consort, contract, covenant, entente, go, squaring, stand in, stand-in, understanding), harmónia (accord, chime, concord, consonancy, consort, diapason, rapport, synch), egybecsengés (consonancy), összhang (accord, accordance, chime, concert, concordance, conformity, consonancy, consort, correspondence, diapason, harmony, rapport, symphony, unison). (various references)

Indonesian

persesuaian, harmonis (compatible, concord, congruence). (various references)

Italian

consonanza. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�'�音 , �'�声 (concord, harmony). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうわお�", わせい (concord, harmony, Japanese-made, Japanese-Spanish). (various references)

Manx

co-vingys (acoustics, concord, harmony), co-unnanaghey (unify). (various references)

Pig Latin

onsonancecay

Portuguese

consonância (concord), harmonia (accord, accordance, arrangement, balance, chime, concord, congeniality, congruence, consistence, consistency, correspondence, diapason, harmony, keeping, music, oneness, peace, rapport, rhythm, symmetry, symphony, tune, unity), acordo (accession, accord, accordance, agreement, cartel, chime, combination, compact, compromise, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, contract, convention, deal, keeping, pact, settling, stand-in, treaty). (various references)

Romanian

consonantã, consonanţã (accord), armonie (accord, agreement, chime, concert, concord, escutcheon, harmony, keeping, key, peace, repose, tune, unison, unity). (various references)

Russian 

согласие (accord, accordance, acquiescence, agreement, amity, assent, chime, compliance, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, consensus, consent, entente, oneness, unison, unity), созвучие (assonance, harmony), консонанс. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sazvučje (harmony, unison), konsonanca. (various references)

Spanish

consonancia. (various references)

Swedish

samklang (accord, chime, harmony, unison), konsonans, harmoni (accord, chime, concord, harmony, sympathy, union, unison). (various references)

Turkish

uyum (accommodation, accord, accordance, balance, chime, coherence, coherency, concert, concinnity, concord, concordance, conformity, congruence, congruity, consecution, consistence, consistency, harmony, keeping, proportion, rapport, rhythm, scheme, symmetry, symphony, tune, unison), uyuşma (accommodation, agreement, alignment, anesthesia, axis, bargain, compromise, concurence, entente, equalization, give and take, narcosis, numbness, pins and needles, stupefaction, understanding), ses uyumu (cadence, euphony, intonation), ahenk (accord, accordance, agreement, cadence, chime, coherence, coherency, concert, concinnity, concordance, concurrence, congruence, congruity, echo, euphony, harmony, rhythm, symmetry, symphony, tune, unison). (various references)

Ukrainian

співзвуччя, гармонія (accord, accordance, cadence, chord, concord, harmonic, harmonica, harmony, rhythm, unison), згода (accedence, accord, accordance, adhesion, agreement, approbation, approval, arrangement, assent, compliance, concert, concord, concordance, consensus, consent, entente, fiat, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, oneness, suit, understanding, yea, yes). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "consonance": consonances. (additional references)

Words ending with "consonance": inconsonance. (additional references)

Words containing "consonance": inconsonances. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Consonance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Casimance, consanance, consenance, consoance, consolance, consonans, consonante, consonnance, cosonance. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cooncans.

-3 letters: ancones, cannons, cooncan, sonance.

-4 letters: ancone, cannon, canoes, canons, cocoas, nances, nonces, oceans, sconce.

-5 letters: acnes, aeons, ancon, canes, canoe, canon, canso, cocas, cocoa, cocos, cones, conns, coons, cosec, nance, neons, nonas, nonce, nones, noons, noose, ocean, onces, scena, scone, secco, senna.

+1 letter: consonances.

+2 letters: consonancies, inconsonance, noncancerous.

+3 letters: inconsonances.

+4 letters: concatenations, concentrations, noncarcinogens, noncompliances, unconscionable.

+5 letters: nonconformances.