cacophony

[ kuh-kof-uh-nee ]

/ kəˈkɒf ə ni /

harsh discordance of sound; dissonance: a cacophony of hoots, cackles, and wails.

a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds: the cacophony produced by city traffic at midday.

Music. frequent use of discords of a harshness and relationship difficult to understand.

Origin of cacophony

1650–60; < New Latin cacophonia < Greek kakophōnía. See caco-, -phony

cac·o·phon·ic

[kak-uh-fon-ik] /ˌkæk əˈfɒn ɪk/, adjective

Most Cacophony events were one-off affairs, just enough to jam the culture a bit before moving on.

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Badges hanging from their necks boast small national flags, and a cacophony of accents represents more than 20 countries.

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For Clinton and the Democrats, the cacophony out of Arizona is music to their ears.

Republicans Better Mind the Modernity Gap To Catch Up to Clinton |Lloyd Green |March 3, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Instead, you find your favorite objects displaced by a cacophony of contemporary works, often highly avant-garde and challenging.

A New Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum Puts a Modern Face on Chinese Art |Melik Kaylan |January 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

It was a cacophony of carnage, if you will, but one well understood by the central antagonists.

The Middle East’s Murder Messages |Christopher Dickey |January 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Unquestionably he does occasionally, like Robert Browning, err in the direction of cacophony.

Some Diversions of a Man of Letters |Edmund William Gosse
There was a cacophony of hisses in her toothless mouth, enough to make all the dogs in Paris howl.

My Double Life |Sarah Bernhardt
Euphony—agreeable tone combinations; the opposite of cacophony.

Music Notation and Terminology |Karl W. Gehrkens
He slid the broad warehouse door closed behind him with a cacophony of dry screeches and padlocked it.

Brown John's Body |Winston Marks
He is the minstrel who will produce harmony or cacophony by his hand and his bow.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) |Havelock Ellis

cacophony

/ (kəˈkɒfənɪ) /

harsh discordant sound; dissonance

the use of unharmonious or dissonant speech sounds in language

Compare euphony