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Tonal vs Nontonal - What's the difference?

tonal | nontonal |

As adjectives the difference between tonal and nontonal

is that tonal is of or relating to tones or tonality while nontonal is not tonal.

As a noun tonal

is an animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.

tonal

English

Etymology 1

(wikipedia tonal)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to tones or tonality.
  • (music) Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
  • (linguistics) Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).
    • Antonyms
    * atonal
    Related terms
    * tonality * tonally

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Alternative forms

    * tona, tonalli

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.
  • * 1989 , Robert Bartley Taylor, Indians of Middle America: an introduction to the ethnology of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean , page 122:
    • When a tonal suffers misfortune or death, the same thing happens to the person associated with it.
    See also
    * nahual

    Anagrams

    * * *

    nontonal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not tonal.