Consonance Sound Kon Suh Nuhns Noun Agreement Accord Combination Pleasing

consonance /KON-suh-nuhns/

noun

1. Agreement or accord.

2. A combination of sounds pleasing to the ear.

3. The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the ends of words, such as st in the phrase first and last.

[Via French, from Latin con- (with) + sonare (to sound), from sonus (sound). Ultimately from the Indo-European root swen- (to sound), which also gave us sound, sonic, sonnet, sonata, and unison. Earliest documented use: 1430.]

USAGE:

"Chin said the stance was in full consonance with the policy of the party." - Jacob Achoi; SUPP Reconciliation 'Bright'; The Borneo Post (Malaysia); Mar 23, 2014.

"The show felt like the sweetest kind of chamber music, with perfectly satisfying intervals, cadences, rhythms; but to achieve that consonance, every part of the ensemble had to be just so." - Hugh Laurie; Saying Goodbye to 'House'; Entertainment Weekly (New York); May 18, 2012.

"Despite the many decades that their lives overlapped and the consonance of their names, like the setup of a joke, Bruch and Bruckner have little in common." - Zachary Woolfe; Come Together; The New York Times; Jan 11, 2013.