Bedlam vs Dissonance - What's the difference?
bedlam | dissonance | Related terms |
A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.
* 1872 : , The Complete Works of John Bunyan , p 133
* 2002 : Mark L. Friedman, ''Everyday Crisis Management, p 134
(obsolete) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A lunatic asylum; a madhouse.
* 1720 : , The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson , p 43
a harsh, discordant combination of sounds
(music) conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding
a state of disagreement or conflict
Bedlam is a related term of dissonance.
As nouns the difference between bedlam and dissonance
is that bedlam is a place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails while dissonance is a harsh, discordant combination of sounds.bedlam
English
Noun
(en noun)- Some of the wards were veritable "bedlams ," and dis-charged patients have told of abuses practiced in them of which the mere recital causes a shudder.
- The outside of the Hyatt was bedlam . There was a group of more than a hundred injured people on the circular drive in front of the hotel.
- Let's get the bedlam to lead him.
- But if any man should profess to believe these things, and yet allow himself in any known wickedness, such a one should be put into bedlam.