In a sentence
Six example sentences with dissonance, each labelled with its topic.
The organist held a dissonance for four full bars, and half the congregation shifted in their seats before it resolved.
Music
A volunteer who called the boring task enjoyable felt the dissonance between her own words and her actual experience.
Psychology
Kierkegaard treats the dissonance between what a person professes and what that person chooses as the beginning of despair.
Philosophy
Voters noticed the dissonance between the party's manifesto on housing and its votes against every new development.
Politics
The dissonance between the values poster in the lobby and the layoffs announced by email was hard to miss.
Business
The novel's power comes from the dissonance between the narrator's cheerful tone and the events he describes.
Literature
Study dissonance until you keep it
Learn English words in sentences about topics you pick, with a quick quiz. With an account, words come back for review.
Found in these word lists
Found in 8 published word listsRecognized
Each source is a published word list that contains dissonance. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.