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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  • After a few moments he became aware of a regular metallic pinging amid the cacophony, and glancing to the side he saw that Byron was rhythmically bouncing a coin off the pillars he passed. —  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard
  • No one can sleep through the cacophony, and everything is covered in bird droppings. —  NewWest.Net All Headlines
  • Lost in the cacophony are the details - which are hard to understand anyway —  LJWorld.com stories: News
  • Yet it's a mistake to think that critical genetic pools exist only in the gaudy show of the coral reefs, or the cacophony of the rainforest. —  Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
  • In an era when traditional media (and the professionals who work for them) are thinning to a whisper, a cacophony is reverberating from cyberspace, where theoretically anyone can be a travel journalist. —  WUSA-TV - Vodcasts
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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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