Plural of dissonancy; archaic or alternate plural form referring to multiple instances of disagreement or clashing elements.
From dissonancy, an older variant of dissonance using the Latin-derived suffix -ancia instead of -entia. Both forms were used interchangeably in Middle English.
Language itself experiences dissonancy—we have multiple ways to say the same word, and most people prefer the newer 'dissonance' over the older 'dissonancy,' a word shift that happens constantly in English.
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