Consonance vs According - What's the difference?
consonance | according |
(prosody) The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance.
(chiefly, music) harmony; agreement; lack of discordance
* Tyndall
Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious.
(obsolete) Accordingly; correspondingly.
* 1604 , (William Shakespeare), Measure for Measure , V.i:
Consistently (as); in a corresponding manner (now generally expressing accordance with two or more alternatives).
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.20:
In accordance, in a manner consistent (to) (something).
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
As a noun consonance
is (prosody) the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance.As a verb according is
.As an adjective according is
agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious.As an adverb according is
(obsolete) accordingly; correspondingly.consonance
English
Noun
(en noun)- The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance .
Antonyms
* dissonance * discordanceReferences
*Lakefield College School Key Literary Terms
according
English
Verb
(head)- Mind and soul according well. -
Adjective
(en adjective)- This according voice of national wisdom.
Adverb
(en adverb)- That apprehends no further than this world, / And squarest thy life according .
- Ethical theories may be divided into two classes, according as they regard virtue as an end or a means.
- there was only a frightening silence, unenlivened even by the invidious enquiries of former years, which culminated, according to its stern nature, in a still more frightening old woman, a figure awaiting her on the very doorstep.