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Dissonance has several meanings, all related to conflict
Conflict

Conflict is a part of discord caused by the actual or perceived opposition of needs, Value s and






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Dissonance has several meanings, all related to conflict
Conflict

Conflict is a part of discord caused by the actual or perceived opposition of needs, Value s and interests. A conflict can be internal or external ....
 or incongruity:

  • Consonance and dissonance
    Consonance and dissonance

    In music, a consonance is a harmony, Chord , or interval considered stable, as opposed to a dissonance ? considered unstable . The strictest definition of consonance may be only those sounds which are pleasant, while the most general definition includes any sounds which are used freely....
     in music are properties of an interval or chord
  • Cognitive dissonance
    Cognitive dissonance

    Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously. The "ideas" or "cognitions" in question may include attitude and beliefs, and also the awareness of one's behavior....
     is a state of mental conflict.
  • Dissonance in poetry is the deliberate avoidance of assonance
    Assonance

    Assonance is repetition of vowel to create internal rhyme within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and Literary consonance serves as one of the building blocks of Poetry....
    , i.e. patterns of repeated vowel sounds. Dissonance in poetry is similar to cacophony and the opposite of euphony
    Euphony

    Phonaesthetics is the claim or study of inherent pleasantness or beauty or unpleasantness of the phonetics of certain linguistic utterances....
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