How to use "dissonance" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "dissonance" in popular movie and book plots

  • Leaving the hospital, the musician sees the dissonance trying to re-emerge.  - Dissonance (film)
  • The novel deals with their adjusting to the normalcy of post-Apartheid South Africa, and the cognitive dissonance of sending their children to private school and living in a suburb while poverty remains a severe problem in the country.  - No Time Like the Present
  • The rhythmic dissonance of the score and the surprising choreography of the piece result in heckling and outrage among much of the audience.  - Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
  • Johnny Sanchez (Ernie Reyes, Jr) has a troubled past which manifests in the dissonance between him and his family, particularly with his father and son.  - The Red Canvas
  • Within the poem, parallelism, proportionality, dissonance and intricate array of puns involving both similitude and antithesis also give the poem greater complexity than that of its classical predecessors.  - La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea
  • This description is in dissonance to the condition in which Augusta's parents find their daughter at a local party.  - Augusta, Gone
  • When the dissonance she’s developed finally overwhelms her, Kenya chooses to reunite with Brian, no longer allowing her controlling nature and social norms to dictate matters of the heart.  - Something New (film)
  • On the whole, due to such cultural disparities, their reception is far from that expected by Dame Isabel: on a penal colony planet, for instance, the performances are made the cover for a jail-break; on a planet inhabited by a race priding themselves on their musical talents, the productions are vetted by an artistic inspector and the company is fined for every unresolved dissonance in the scores performed; on still another, the performance is mistaken for a trade exhibition and the aliens attempt to buy some of the singers.  - Space Opera (novel)
  • This dissonance causes Saul to regain control just as the Piper attempts to kill him; he dodges the blow and resists the Piper.  - King Rat (Miéville novel)
  • Therefore, Powell decides to risk his life by going out in the heat, hoping that the First Law will force Speedy to overcome his cognitive dissonance and save his life.  - Runaround (story)

Example sentences for "dissonance" in interesting articles

  • It was a cognitive dissonance he had often felt flying missions, as he tried to remind himself that the world was just as real when seen in a grainy image as with the naked eye, that despite being filtered through distance and technology, cause and effect still applied.  - Confessions of a Drone Warrior
  • Here’s an evolutionary critique of the creationist theory in question: http://apps.usd.edu/esci/creation/age/content/creationism_and_young_earth/accelerated_decay.html —– This is a class I would have slowly savored with a tiny spoon……… I’m from a psych background, and I had to battle some serious cognitive dissonance when I was in Bible college, — which was before I reached university and could stretch my science wings.  - I was trained for the culture wars in home school
  • That just set off a wave of cognitive dissonance among the hackers who'd like to hit on you … Do hackers hit on you? Sheedy: No, I don't hear so much from hackers.  - WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars
  • The cognitive dissonance is getting greater and greater. Now comes this controversy, which adds to the disconnect.  - The Yale Problem Begins in High School
  • Here’s an evolutionary critique of the creationist theory in question: http://apps.usd.edu/esci/creation/age/content/creationism_and_young_earth/accelerated_decay.html —– This is a class I would have slowly savored with a tiny spoon……… I’m from a psych background, and I had to battle some serious cognitive dissonance when I was in Bible college, — which was before I reached university and could stretch my science wings.  - I was trained for the culture wars in home school
  • I suspect a lot of now-doctors were told or had an inkling of what it’s really like, but they failed to imagine the nasty reality of 24- or 30-hour call. They, like most people, ignore information that conflicts with their current belief system about the glamor of medicine to avoid cognitive dissonance (as we all do: this is part of what Jonathan Haidt points out in The Righteous Mind, as does Daniel Kahneman in Thinking, Fast and Slow).  - Be a nurse or P.A. instead of a doctor: the underrated perils of medical school
  • Any cognitive dissonance you may be experiencing right now is also intentional.) Here's my position on copy and paste for programmers: Copy and paste doesn't create bad code.  - A Modest Proposal for the Copy and Paste School of Code Reuse
  • It's no wonder that most people are ignoring the story; it's just too much cognitive dissonance to try to cope with it. This sort of thing can destroy our country.  - Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet
  • economy’s yawning wealth gap, and being a part of YouTube’s “middle class” often means grappling daily with the cognitive dissonance of a full comments section and an empty wallet.  - The sad economics of being famous on the internet
  • As a Content Rewriter, it is your job to know these requirements and change content accordingly, removing the unsettling parts or rewording those facts and bits which may cause cognitive dissonance with consumers. Finding a Partner Are you single and looking for the right partner? Based on your biometric data, your income, your location, as well as the Overall Attitude (OA) results from your Internet Surfing License, anywhere from 10-100 people in your area will be suggested to you.  - How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025)
  • But let's not become some Faux News-like outlet where dissonance by definition equals trolling and folks saying unpopular or uninformed things must be shot at.  - Senator Feinstein Admits the NSA Taps the Internet Backbone

Meaning of "dissonance" in English

  • disagreeable sounds
  • the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
  • a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

Meaning of "dissonance" in Hindi

  • बेसुरापन ( Besurapan, besuraapan)
  • विस्वरता ( Visvarata, visvarataa, wiswarata)
  • विभिन्नता ( Vibhinnata, vibhinnataa, wibhinnata)
  • ध्वनि वैषम्यअ
  • असंगति ( Asangati)

Synonyms of "dissonance"

  • disagreement
  • dissension
  • racket
  • noise

Antonyms of "dissonance"

  • accord
  • harmony
  • agreement

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