What does dissonate mean?
Definitions for dissonate
dis·sonate
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Princeton's WordNet
dissonateverb
be dissonant or harsh
"The violins in this piece dissonated disturbingly"
disharmonize, dissonateverb
cause to sound harsh and unpleasant
Wiktionary
dissonateverb
To be dissonant.
dissonateverb
To cause dissonance (in all senses).
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dissonate
In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds. Within the Western tradition, some listeners associate consonance with sweetness, pleasantness, and acceptability, and dissonance with harshness, unpleasantness, or unacceptability, although there is broad acknowledgement that this depends also on familiarity and musical expertise. The terms form a structural dichotomy in which they define each other by mutual exclusion: a consonance is what is not dissonant, and a dissonance is what is not consonant. However, a finer consideration shows that the distinction forms a gradation, from the most consonant to the most dissonant. In casual discourse, as German composer and music theorist Paul Hindemith stressed, "The two concepts have never been completely explained, and for a thousand years the definitions have varied". The term sonance has been proposed to encompass or refer indistinctly to the terms consonance and dissonance.
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dissonate
Dissonate is not a recognized verb in standard English. The term is most likely a misuse or typo of "dissonant" or "dissonance". Dissonance refers to a lack of harmony or agreement among elements or a tension or clash resulted from a combination of discordant or contradictory elements.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of dissonate in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of dissonate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Translations for dissonate
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- تنكرArabic
- disonovatCzech
- dissonereDanish
- dissonierenGerman
- disonaciiEsperanto
- disonanteSpanish
- dissonoidaFinnish
- dissonerFrench
- dothuigtheIrish
- disszonáljanakHungarian
- tidak selarasIndonesian
- dissonanteItalian
- 不協和音Japanese
- dissonareLatin
- dissonerenDutch
- dissonereNorwegian
- dysonansPolish
- dissonarPortuguese
- disonaRomanian
- dissoneraSwedish
- ahenksizTurkish
- bất hòaVietnamese
- 不和諧Chinese
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