consonances

Noun

consonance (countable and uncountable, plural consonances)

1. A form of rhyme having the same consonants but different vowels.

   Synonyms:

   consonant rhyme, pararhyme

   Antonyms:

   perfect rhyme, exact rhyme, full rhyme

2. Harmony; agreement; absence of discordance.
   • Like a musical string, the optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance, while it refuses to be excited by others of almost infinitely greater energy, whose period of recurrence are not in unison with its own.1865, John Tyndall, On Radiation: The "Rede" Lecture, Delivered in the Senate-house Before the University of Cambridge on Tuesday, May 16, 1865, page 33

   Synonyms:

   concord, concordance

   Antonyms:

   dissonance, cacophony