harmony
Meanings
Plural: harmonies
Noun
- compatibility in opinion and action
- the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords
- a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole
- agreement of opinions
- an agreeable sound property
- Agreement or accord.
- A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
- The academic study of chords.
- Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
- The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
- A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.
Origin / Etymology
First attested in 1602. From Middle English armonye, from Old French harmonie/armonie, from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”), either from or cognate with ἁρμόζω (harmózō, “I fit together”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to join, fit, fix together”). Doublet of harmonia.
Synonyms
concord, concordance, harmoniousness, musical harmony
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
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