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Consonance vs Emergence - What's the difference?

consonance | emergence |

As nouns the difference between consonance and emergence

is that consonance is (prosody) the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance while emergence is emergence.

consonance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (prosody) The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance.
  • (chiefly, music) harmony; agreement; lack of discordance
  • * Tyndall
    • The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance .

    Antonyms

    * dissonance * discordance

    References

    * Lakefield College School Key Literary Terms

    emergence

    English

    (wikipedia emergence)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprising or appearance.
  • In particular: the arising of emergent structure in complex systems.

    • See also

    * eclosion

    References

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