consonance

English

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin consonantia

Noun

consonance (countable and uncountable, plural consonances)

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

(prosody) The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance.
(chiefly music) Harmony; agreement; lack of discordance.
- Tyndall
  The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance.

Antonyms

Translations

the repetition of consonant sounds

Bulgarian: съзвучие (bg) n (sǎzvučie)
French: consonance (fr) f

Russian: созву́чие (ru) n (sozvúčije), консона́нс (ru) m (konsonáns)

music harmony; agreement

Bulgarian: съгласие (bg) n (sǎglasie), хармония (bg) f (harmonija)
French: consonance (fr) f

Italian: consonanza (it) f
Russian: созву́чие (ru) n (sozvúčije), консона́нс (ru) m (konsonáns), согла́сие (ru) n (soglásije), гармо́ния (ru) f (garmónija)

References

Lakefield College School Key Literary Terms

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