cacophony

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Lost in the cacophony are the details - which are hard to understand anyway

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  1. noun Jarring, discordant sound; dissonance: heard a cacophony of horns during the traffic jam.
  2. noun The use of harsh or discordant sounds in literary composition, as for poetic effect.

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  • Huddled groups of mean, wooden houses, the windows of which were beginning to outline themselves in light, were scattered here and there along the line, and the frequent halting places were crowded with their swarthy inhabitants. —  The Valley of Fear
  • Lost in the cacophony are the details - which are hard to understand anyway —  LJWorld.com stories: News
  • Lost in the cacophony are the details -- which are hard to understand anyway
  • One tool to cut down on the cacophony is an internal cell phone system. —  wacotrib - Latest News Headlines
  • "Strike another one!" —  The Order War
 

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  1. French cacophonie, from Greek kakophōniā, from kakophōnos, cacophonous; see cacophonous.

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  1. from New Latin cacophonia, from Greek κακοφωνία, from κακόφωνος, harsh-sounding, from κακός, bad, + φωνή, sound, voice; in antithesis to euphony.
 

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