DISSONANCE


Meaning of DISSONANCE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

cognitive

The result, again, was a recognition of cognitive dissonance between internal stakeholder groups.

Defenders have advanced to a state of cognitive dissonance , an awareness that beliefs conflict with evidence.

Of course, the recognition of cognitive dissonance still does not solve the problem.

But in 1959 something was wrong with this picture: cognitive dissonance .

Meanwhile, the cognitive dissonance of the experience should shock any uniformitarian in the audience fully awake.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a choral piece full of dissonance and odd rhythms

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Revelling in colour and contrast, drama and dissonance , boldness and individualism, it was the architectural legacy of Romanticism.

The party faithful might be willing to put up with such dissonance among their candidates.

We will now add a lower part which will turn the consonant effect into one of uniformly relaxed mild dissonance .

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