consonance: Meaning and Definition of

con•so•nance

1. accord or agreement.
2. correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.
3. a simultaneous combination of tones conventionally accepted as being in a state of repose. Cf. dissonance (def. 2). See illus. under
1. the correspondence of consonants, esp. those at the end of a word, in a passage of prose or verse. Cf. alliteration (def. 1).
2. the use of the repetition of consonants or consonant patterns as a rhyming device.
5. the property of two sounds the frequencies of which have a ratio equal to a small whole number.