Definition of Consonancy. Meaning of Consonancy. Synonyms of Consonancy

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Definition of Consonancy

Consonancy
Consonance Con"so*nance, Consonancy Con"so*nan*cy, n. [L. consonantia: cf. F. consonnance.] 1. (Mus.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth. 2. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness. The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. --Hammond. The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance. --Tyndall. 3. Friendship; concord. [Obs.] By the consonancy of our youth. --Shak. Syn: Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony; congruity; suitableness; agreeableness.

Meaning of Consonancy from wikipedia

- § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure...
- {affricate}, ⟨Cᴳ⟩ for a consonant with a glide as secondary articulation (e.g. ⟨Cʲ⟩ for {palatalized consonant} and ⟨Cʷ⟩ for {labialized consonant}) and ⟨D̪⟩ for...
- and transcription delimiters. In phonetics, ejective consonants are usually voiceless consonants that are pronounced with a glottalic egressive airstream...
- Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known...
- delimiters. In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a labial consonant articulated with both lips. Bilabial consonants are very common across languages. Only...
- § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Postalveolar (post-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar...
- is known as Hangul (South Korean: 한글). The letters for the five basic consonants reflect the shape of the speech organs used to pronounce them. They are...
- ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the...
- transcription delimiters. In linguistics, a consonant cluster, consonant sequence or consonant compound is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel....
- ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Consonant mutation is change in a consonant in a word according to its morphological or syntactic...