consonance
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒns(ə)nəns/
noun
- agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions: consonance between conservation measures and existing agricultural practice a constitution in consonance with the people’s customs
- the recurrence of similar-sounding consonants in close proximity, especially in prosody: the abrupt quality of the sound is echoed in the final ‘t’ consonance of ‘discreet’ and ‘shut’
- Music a combination of notes which are in harmony with each other due to the relationship between their frequencies: all music creates tension and release, dissonance and consonance
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin consonantia, from consonant- 'sounding together', from the verb consonare (see consonant)