Synonyms for dissonance
ˈdɪs ə nənsdis·so·nance

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1. disagreement, dissension, dissonancenoun

   a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

   Synonyms:
   discrepancy, noise, dissension, racket, discord, variance, disagreement, divergence

   Antonyms:
   harmony

2. noise, dissonance, racketnoun

   the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience

   "modern music is just noise to me"

   Synonyms:
   haphazardness, disagreement, noise, stochasticity, racquet, racket, interference, dissension, fraudulent scheme, disturbance, randomness, illegitimate enterprise

   Antonyms:
   harmony

3. dissonancenoun

   disagreeable sounds

   Synonyms:
   dissension, racket, disagreement, noise

   Antonyms:
   harmony

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1. • Conflict
   • Sound Property

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. dissonancenoun

   Synonyms:
   discord, discordance, harshness, jarring, want of harmony

2. dissonancenoun

   Synonyms:
   disagreement, inconsistency, incongruity

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1. List of paraphrases for "dissonance":

   unconformity, cacophony, discordance

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1. Parker Conrad:

   I think [ADP has] always had a bit of cognitive dissonance about Zenefits. On the one hand, we don’t do payroll—we’re a sales channel for them for payroll. On the other hand, although people think of ADP as a payroll company, they make a lot of money by taking that core payroll business and upselling clients on all of this other stuff, i think what happened for ADP is that at a certain point, their view of us flipped from uncertainty to a decision that they absolutely didn’t like us. Who knows? They might decide in six months to a year, ‘Oh my gosh, this is a mistake, we’d much rather partner with Zenefits—they have a lot of customers in the market, and we don’t want to block ourselves out of all of those customers.’.

2. Eric Garcetti:

   CORONAVIRUS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW We outweigh the risks of our situation for other goals, health benefits of connection, and normal routine. It can make people vulnerable to suggestions to bend COVID-19 safety guidelines, she said. We initially may have been fearful, but as we start to gain control we become more confident to confront situations that may have scared us. As a result, as the pandemic continues, some of us have adjusted and started to underestimate the actual threat, ignore situational hazards, and dont take COVID-19 risks as seriously. Speaking to Fox News, Dr. Collin Reiff, a psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Langone Health, likened caution fatigue to swimming in the ocean. People go swimming in the ocean, a potentially dangerous place, and dont take flotation devices with them. If you dont see anyone drown, you feel fine doing it, he said. But if we hear that 100,000 people died [while swimming in the ocean], and 180,000 could drown by October, you would see more people wearing a flotation device, he said, referringto a recent report that U.S. coronavirus deaths are projected to reach 180,000 by the beginning of October unless the majority of people start wearing face masks. Reiff also hypothesized that cognitive dissonance might play a part in those who find themselves having a more lax attitude toward recommended safety precautions. Experts still recommend safety precautions such as practicing social distancing, frequent hand washing and wearing a face covering while in public. (iStock) I think some of it is fatigue, but I think another part of it is that a lot of people havent been [as directly] impacted by the novel coronavirus, he said, noting that the virus had a more direct impact on those living in cities that were hit hard at the start of the pandemic, such as New York City and Philadelphia. CORONAVIRUS INFECTS 60 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS STUDENTS ON SPRING BREAK TRIP TO MEXICO It may not be so much fatigue but their experience with COVID [the precautions] are not convenient for me any longer.

3. Rohini Haar:

   I think in the U.S. the culture has been more of trusting health workers, there hasn’t been a longstanding conflict where there’s been a dissonance between health workers and the community.

4. Mariana Fulger:

   Art is the essence of beauty. The artist, a mute that practiced crying until he managed to shout free of dissonance.

5. Adam Cathcart:

   It seems to indicate that he's either freestyling, or that his administration thinks that Kim Jong Un would actually be interested in meeting as a kind of carrot for negotiating, but there is an obvious dissonance with [Secretary of State Rex] Tillerson's categorical statements that the US will not 'negotiate its way back to the negotiating table.'.