title: Dissonance
text: # Dissonance
  
  Dissonance has several meanings related to conflict or incongruity:
  
  * Cognitive dissonance is a state of mental conflict.
  * Cultural dissonance is an uncomfortable sense experienced by people in the midst of change in their cultural environment.
  * Consonance and dissonance in music are properties of an interval or chord (the quality of a discord)
  * Dissonance in poetry is the deliberate avoidance of assonance, i.e. patterns of repeated vowel sounds. Dissonance in poetry is similar to cacophony and the opposite of euphony.
  * Dissonance (album), a 2009 album by Enuff Z'Nuff.
  * Dissonance (film), a 2015 film.
  * "Dissonance", a 2023 song by Lovebites from the album Judgement Day
  