agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions:consonance between conservation measures and existing agricultural practicea constitution in consonance with the people’s customs
the recurrence of similar-sounding consonants in close proximity, especially in prosody:the abrupt quality of the sound is echoed in the final ‘t’ consonance of ‘discreet’ and ‘shut’
Music a combination of notes which are in harmony with each other due to the relationship between their frequencies:all music creates tension and release, dissonance and consonance [count noun]:the tendency to place strong consonances in lower parts
