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Subtext vs Overtone - What's the difference?

subtext | overtone |

As nouns the difference between subtext and overtone

is that subtext is the implicit meaning of a text, often a literary one, or a speech or dialogue while overtone is a tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a harmonic.

subtext

English

Noun

(wikipedia subtext) (en noun)
  • The implicit meaning of a text, often a literary one, or a speech or dialogue.

    • Derived terms

    * subtextual

    Anagrams

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    overtone

    English

    (wikipedia overtone)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics, music) A tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a harmonic
  • An implicit message (in a film, book, verbal discussion or similar) perceived as overwhelming the explicit message. See undertone.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".}}

    Related terms

    * overtoning