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Antimusic vs Antimusical - What's the difference?

antimusic | antimusical |

As a noun antimusic

is any form of music that defies convention to such a degree that some people would not recognise it as musical.

As an adjective antimusical is

opposing or countering music.

antimusic

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any form of music that defies convention to such a degree that some people would not recognise it as musical.

    • antimusical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Opposing or countering music.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 4, author=Alastair Macaulay, title=Wake Up, Princess, the Movies Are Calling, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=This does become monstrously antimusical in one scene: when Tchaikovsky’s music, softly depicting the sleeping palace (my favorite passage of this composer’s entire oeuvre, with its beautifully muffled oboe melody suggesting how beauty ripens in sleep like a chrysalis), is turned into an epic battle for the poor passive Prince, conducted between the wicked Carabosse, with her ghoulish minions, and the Lilac Fairy, with her elves. }}
  • Of or pertaining to antimusic.