consonance (redirected from consonant rhyme)

consonance, consonancy

1. Prosody similarity between consonants, but not between vowels, as between the s and t sounds in sweet silent thought

2. Music

a. an aesthetically pleasing sensation or perception associated with the interval of the octave, the perfect fourth and fifth, the major and minor third and sixth, and chords based on these intervals

b. an interval or chord producing this sensation

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consonance [′kän·sə·nəns]

(acoustics)

The interval between two tones whose frequencies are in a ratio approximately equal to the quotient of two whole numbers, each equal to or less than 6, or to such a quotient multiplied or divided by some power of 2.