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Drudgery vs Cacophony - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between drudgery and cacophony

is that drudgery is tedious, menial and exhausting work while cacophony is a mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.

drudgery

English

Noun

  • tedious, menial and exhausting work
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 34.
  • we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery of business seeks a pretence of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.

    Synonyms

    * tedium * moil * See also

    Derived terms

    * drudgerous (rare)

    cacophony

    English

    Noun

    (cacophonies)
  • A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
  • * 1921-1922, ,
  • Not more unutterable could have been the chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was centered all the supernal terror and unnatural despair of animate nature.

    Antonyms

    * euphony * harmony

    Derived terms

    * cacophonic * cacophonous