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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A harsh, disagreeable combination of sounds; discord.
  2. n. Lack of agreement, consistency, or harmony; conflict: "In Vietnam, reality fell away and dissonance between claim and fact filled the void” ( Michael Janeway).
  3. n. Music A combination of tones contextually considered to suggest unrelieved tension and require resolution.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The quality or fact of being dissonant; an inharmonious mixture or combination of sounds; harshness of combined sounds; discord.
  2. n. Specifically— In music: The combination of tones that are so far unrelated to each other as to produce beats: distinguished from consonance. See beat, n.
  3. n. The interval between two such tones. See discord.
  4. n. Discord in general; disagreement; incongruity; inconsistency.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a harsh, discordant combination of sounds
  2. n. music conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding
  3. n. a state of disagreement or conflict

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.
  2. n. Want of agreement; incongruity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
  2. n. the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
  3. n. disagreeable sounds

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