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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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