Hubbub vs Cacophony - What's the difference?
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A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket.
* John Milton, Paradise Lost
A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
* 1921-1922, ,
As nouns the difference between hubbub and cacophony
is that hubbub is a confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket while cacophony is a mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.hubbub
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Alternative forms
* whobub (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- At length a universal hubbub wild
- Of stunning sounds and voices all confused,
- Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear
- With loudest vehemence.
Synonyms
* See alsocacophony
English
Noun
(cacophonies)- 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.