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Consonance vs Symmetry - What's the difference?

consonance | symmetry |

As nouns the difference between consonance and symmetry

is that consonance is (prosody) the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance while symmetry is exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.

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

    symmetry

    English

    (wikipedia symmetry)

    Noun

    (symmetries)
  • Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.
  • (uncountable) The satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry .}}

    Related terms

    * symmetric

    References