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Consonancy vs Consonance - What's the difference?

consonancy | consonance |

As nouns the difference between consonancy and consonance

is that consonancy is (obsolete) consistency; congruity while consonance is (prosody) the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance.

consonancy

English

Noun

  • (obsolete) consistency; congruity
  • *1602 : , act 2 scene 2 lines 249-254
    • But let me conjure
    you, by the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy
    of our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved
    love, and by what more dear a better proposer can
    charge you withal, be even and direct with me whether
    you were sent for or no.
  • * Hammond
    • The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity.

    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