Definition of consonance
1 : harmony or agreement among components His beliefs are in consonance with the political party's views.
2a : correspondence or recurrence of sounds especially in words; specifically : recurrence or repetition of consonants especially at the end of stressed syllables without the similar correspondence of vowels (as in the final sounds of “stroke” and “luck”)b : concord 1bc : sympathetic vibration, resonance
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Examples of consonance in a Sentence
at present, the living room lacks consonance because all of the furniture is on one side
in good writing there is always consonance of thought and expression, as the use of simple words for simple thoughts
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This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it.
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These crosscurrents of connection add up to a consonance that might almost be mythic.
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But a film also resonates peculiarly with the specific time of its creation, not necessarily through overt connections to current events but in terms of consonance or dissonance with prevailing moods.
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Amusics also can’t distinguish consonance from dissonance.
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