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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Consonance \Con"so*nance\, Consonancy \Con"so*nan*cy\, noun [L. consonantia: cf. F. consonnance.]
1. (Mus.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.
2. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness.
The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. --Hammond.
The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance. --Tyndall.
3. Friendship; concord. [Obs.]
By the consonancy of our youth. --Shak.
Syn: Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony; congruity; suitableness; agreeableness.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
consonance
noun
1: the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words [syn: {consonant rhyme}]
2: the property of sounding harmonious [syn: {harmoniousness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "consonance": accord, accordance, affinity, agreement, alliteration, assent, assonance, attune, attunement, blank verse, calm, chime, chiming, chorus, clink, coherence, coincidence, compatibility, concentus, concert, concord, concordance, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, consistency, consonancy, consort, constancy, continuity, cooperation, correspondence, crambo, diapason, double rhyme, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, equivalence, euphony, evenness, eye rhyme, harmonics, harmony, heavy harmony, homogeneity, homophony, intersection, monochord, monody, monolithism, near rhyme, oneness, overlap, parallelism, peace, persistence, rapport, rhyme, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme, rhyming dictionary, self-consistency, single rhyme, slant rhyme, stability, steadfastness, steadiness, symmetry, symphony, sync, synchronism, synchronization, tail rhyme, tally, three-part harmony, timing, tune, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, unity, unrhymed poetry, unruffledness
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