different between cacophony vs vociferation

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)

1. 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.

Antonyms

• euphony
• harmony

Derived terms

• cacophonic
• cacophonous
• castrophony

Related terms

• anthropophony
• cacophonous
• dissonance
• harmony

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin v?cifer?ti?, from v?ciferor (“shout”), from v?x (“voice”) + fer? (“carry”); compare French vocifération.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v???s?f.???e?.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /vo??s?f.???e?.??n/

Noun

vociferation (plural vociferations)

1. The act of exclaiming; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Crack go the whips; but twenty Patriot arms have seized each of the eight bridles: there is rearing, rocking, vociferation; not the smallest headway.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:vociferation.

Related terms

• vociferate
• vociferative
• vociferous
• vociferously

Translations