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cacophonia

cacophonia is the alternative form of cacophony.

Meaning of cacophony

Noun

cacophony (countable and uncountable, plural cacophonies)

  1. A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
    • Not more unutterable could have been the chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was centered all the supernal terror and unnatural despair of animate nature.1921-1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator

Questions about cacophonia

What is cacophonia the alternative form of?
Cacophonia is the alternative form of cacophony.

Words near cacophonia in the dictionary

  1. cacoon vines
  2. cacoons
  3. cacophemism
  4. cacophemisms
  5. cacophobia
  6. cacophonia
  7. cacophonic
  8. cacophonical
  9. cacophonically
  10. cacophonies
  11. cacophonious

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