Her conflicting desires to consume chocolate and to lose weight resulted in her experiencing cognitive dissonance.
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Dissonance
Synonyms for "dissonance" (103 found)
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Noun(8 words)
incoherenceincongruitiesinternal conflictlinguistic inconsistencynoisepsychological tensionracketsemantic incongruity
Adjective(1 words)
musical discord
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6 entriesauditory dissonancecognitive dissonancecultural dissonancemoral dissonancemusical dissonanceperceived dissonance
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This piece makes heavy use of dissonance and syncopation.
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The dissonance in this piece has caused many critics to label it a "wrong note sonata".
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"Frank, I think humans are not central in this universe; therefore, God would not be human-like." "Don, your scientific and religious notions have no dissonance, then."
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