cacophony
noun
harsh or unpleasant discordance of sound; dissonance.
cacophonies
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pluralof cacophony.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But much of the prominent fiction of 2022 met the moment and captured this fragmentation, thick with code-switching, style-shifting and cacophonies of anxious narration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
The cacophony of viewpoints in a nation unafraid to express them seemed to yield what such cacophonies often yield: muddle.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022
The collective, overlapping cacophonies from those larger waves, thought to be produced when behemoth black holes lurking in the centers of galaxies collide, are what the NANOGrav collaboration has been working to capture.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 3, 2021
But the score is beautiful, with patterns and loops and cacophonies that echo Evan’s mind.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2016
I have corrected all typographical errors,–then all slips of the pen,–then many cacophonies of language,–moreover, verbal and real blunders enough; but the conceits and the poetical tulips I have seldom rooted out.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
