different between babel vs cacophony
babel
- See Wiktionary Babel for information about language boxes on user pages
English
Noun
babel (plural babels)
- Alternative form of Babel
Anagrams
- Bable, Labbe
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cacophony
English
Etymology
From French cacophonie, from Ancient Greek ????????? (kakoph?nía), from ????? (kakós, “bad”) + ???? (ph?n?, “sound”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k??k?f?ni/
- (US) IPA(key): /k??k?f?ni/
Noun
cacophony (countable and uncountable, plural cacophonies)
- A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
- 1921-1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator,
- Not more unutterable could have been the chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was centered all the supernal terror and unnatural despair of animate nature.
- 1921-1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator,
Antonyms
- euphony
- harmony
Derived terms
- cacophonic
- cacophonous
- castrophony
Related terms
- anthropophony
- cacophonous
- dissonance
- harmony
Translations
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