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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Consonance \Con"so*nance\, Consonancy \Con"so*nan*cy\, n. [L.
     consonantia: cf. F. consonnance.]
     1. (Mus.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced
        simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and
        eighth.
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     2. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency;
        suitableness.
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              The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to
              the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. --Hammond.
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              The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it
              is in consonance.                     --Tyndall.
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     3. Friendship; concord. [Obs.]
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              By the consonancy of our youth.       --Shak.
  
     Syn: Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony;
          congruity; suitableness; agreeableness.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  consonance
       n 1: the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns)
            especially at the ends of words [syn: {consonant rhyme}]
       2: the property of sounding harmonious [syn: {harmoniousness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  89 Moby Thesaurus words for "consonance":
     accord, accordance, affinity, agreement, alliteration, assent,
     assonance, attune, attunement, blank verse, calm, chime, chiming,
     chorus, clink, coherence, coincidence, compatibility, concentus,
     concert, concord, concordance, conformance, conformation,
     conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity,
     consistency, consonancy, consort, constancy, continuity,
     cooperation, correspondence, crambo, diapason, double rhyme,
     equability, equanimity, equilibrium, equivalence, euphony,
     evenness, eye rhyme, harmonics, harmony, heavy harmony,
     homogeneity, homophony, intersection, monochord, monody,
     monolithism, near rhyme, oneness, overlap, parallelism, peace,
     persistence, rapport, rhyme, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme,
     rhyming dictionary, self-consistency, single rhyme, slant rhyme,
     stability, steadfastness, steadiness, symmetry, symphony, sync,
     synchronism, synchronization, tail rhyme, tally,
     three-part harmony, timing, tune, uniformity, union, unison,
     unisonance, unity, unrhymed poetry, unruffledness
  
  

















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