What is the meaning of dissonance?

noun

  • A conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters.
  • The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience.
    • usage: "modern music is just noise to me"
  • Disagreeable sounds. .
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