inconsonance
(ɪnˈkɒnsənəns)
[f. inconsonant (after consonance): see -ance.]
Want of consonance or agreement; inharmoniousness.
| 1811 Rees Cycl., Inconsonance, in Music, is of the same import nearly with dissonance, or a jarring and unpleasant sound. 1817 Coleridge Biog. Lit. (1870) 67, I presumed that this was a possible conception (i.e. that it involved no logical inconsonance). 1849 R. I. Wilberforce Holy Bapt. (1850) 135 To judge respecting the consonance or inconsonance of the means employed. |