dissonance
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7.8
- noun
- /ˈdɪsənəns/
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disonancia
- The dissonance between their beliefs led to heated debates at the conference.
- cognitive dissonance
- dissonance reduction
- dissonance scale
That sort of hypocrisy, that cognitive dissonance is just infuriating.
- That sort of hypocrisy, that cognitive dissonance is just infuriating.
- So, you know, it's fun to create cognitive dissonance in in, in people's minds.
- You know, and and and I didn't know this dissonance was inside me.
- And holding that paradox, holding that cognitive dissonance, I think was key to us.
- And there's this force called cognitive dissonance.
- The cognitive dissonance is enormous because modern war is so damn impersonal.
- This dissonance between public and private, that's where the shame creeps in.
- It fosters the dissonance and the trauma bonds too.
- And once that begins, so too does the cognitive dissonance and the justifying.
- I would think that these people are experts in cognitive dissonance, right?
- As a result, cognitive dissonance is all they've got.
- So it's just all of this cognitive dissonance wrapped in this judgement.
Examples
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Or are we going to look at just half steps and dissonance and explore that?
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Finally, cognitive dissonance shows up with children.
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Love uses the dissonance to challenge other people toward Christ.
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In addition, I cannot help but notice a kind of dissonance between form and message.
Academic text (1996) -
The second condition for the existence of dissonance is public commitment to a value or a belief.
Academic text (1994) -
Their inability to make a decision results from fear of dissonance occurring.
Academic text (2012) -
But instead I found myself grappling with this dissonance between what should be and what was.
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Mechanisms that give rise to dissonance between computed risk and perception of risk are not known.
Academic text (1994) -
Strategic ignorance has its roots in research on cognitive dissonance during the 1950s.
Academic text (2017) -
It creates a sense of cognitive dissonance that people don't know how to process.
Synonyms
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2.3
A serious disagreement between people or groups over ideas
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1.6
A situation when people do not have the same opinion
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5.9
A gap between what people think and what really happens
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6.5
A strong disagreement between people or groups
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3.7
A strong clash between ideas or goals
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3.5
A situation where two or more people disagree about something important
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5.6
Strong disagreement between people or groups
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7.5
A disagreement and arguing between people who must work together
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7.0
A quality that makes people strongly disagree and split into groups
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8.0
A situation where something does not fit or seem right
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6.7
A feeling of disagreement and tension between people
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6.4
A situation when people or groups do not agree
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6.3
A disagreement between people about beliefs or ideas
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8.1
A situation when people or groups are not united
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8.2
A disagreement with a government or its rules
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8.1
A clashing sound in music when notes do not fit
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8.1
A situation where people or groups disagree and feel tension
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8.1
A lack of agreement between things or ideas
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8.2
A situation where people or things do not agree
A feeling of strong conflict inside a person about two different loyalties
A state where ideas or statements say opposite things and cannot both be true
A disagreement between ideas, people, or interests
A part that does not match rules or plans
Lack of agreement between people or ideas
A tendency to make members of a group argue and become divided
Antonyms
How Dissonant
Surface Forms
Morphology
dissonance = dissonant (semi-transparent) = dis + son + ance
If a learner knows the adjective 'dissonant', the noun meaning 'the state or quality of being dissonant' is straightforward.
Etymology
Dissonance comes from the Latin parts dis- meaning 'not' or 'apart' and son- meaning 'sound', like in song. So dissonance literally means 'not sounding together', which helps you remember it as a lack of agreement or harmony.