Harmony
['hɑːmənɪ] or ['hɑrməni]
Definition
(noun.) compatibility in opinion and action.
(noun.) an agreeable sound property.
(noun.) the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords.
(noun.) agreement of opinions.
(noun.) a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole.
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Definition
(n.) The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.
(n.) Concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests, etc.; good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good citizens live in harmony.
(n.) A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels.
(n.) A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation.
(n.) The science which treats of their construction and progression.
(n.) See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.
Editor: Ramon
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Concord (especially of sounds or tones), accord, accordance, consonance, concordance, unison, agreement, chime.[2]. Adaptation, correspondence, consistency, congruity, congruence, fitness, suitableness.[3]. Peace, amity, friendship, good understanding.
Typist: Murray
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See AGREEMENT_and_CONCORD]
Checker: Ramona
Definition
n. a fitting together of parts so as to form a connected whole agreement in relation: in art a normal state of completeness and order in the relations of things to each other: (mus.) a simultaneous combination of accordant sounds: the whole chordal structure of a piece as distinguished from its melody or its rhythm: concord music in general: a collation of parallel passages regarding the same event arranged to demonstrate the substantial unity—as of the Gospels.—Harmony or Music of the spheres a harmony formed by the regular movements of the heavenly bodies throughout space determined by the relation to each other of the intervals of separation; Pre-established harmony the designation of Leibnitz for his theory of the divinely established relation between body and mind—the movements of monads and the succession of ideas as it were a constant agreement between two clocks.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
From the Grk. arnumi, strain. Hence, full of strains.
Typist: Marvin
Examples
- I was a discord in Gateshead Hall: I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed or her children, or her chosen vassalage. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Then in our city the language of harmony and concord will be more often heard than in any other. Plato. The Republic.
- Harmon's Jail; Harmony Jail. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In his travels, and in his accompanying readings, he had come to the conclusion that the essential secret of life was harmony. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Suffering and amiability may exist together, and writers have loved to depict their conjunction; there is a human and touching harmony in the picture. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Here's harmony! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Only the single, the uniform, assures coherence and harmony. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is Nature's harmony and order revealed to our understanding that give us a clue to its creation by an understanding of the highe st order. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Never was harmony more perfect than that between the chaos of her mind and the chaos of the world without. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He had no wish to make her talk; her quick-breathing silence seemed a part of the general hush and harmony of things. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Through his most inveterate purposes, the dead Jailer of Harmony Jail had known these two faithful servants to be honest and true. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As soon as Roosevelt had thrown off the burden of preserving a false harmony among irreconcilable Republicans, he issued a platform full of definiteness and square dealing with many issues. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Do you observe that we were not far wrong in our guess that temperance was a sort of harmony? Plato. The Republic.
- She seemed to belong rightly to a madrigal--to require viewing through rhyme and harmony. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Not only this, but he has learned certain rules for these values--the golden rule in morals; harmony, balance, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- These should be like the harmonies, simple and suitable to the occasion. Plato. The Republic.
- The explanation given in the text supposes the two harmonies to make up the number 8000. Plato. The Republic.
- Science has given to music the ardent devotion of a lover, and resolved a confused mass of more or less pleasant noises into liquid harmonies. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And if our youth are to do their work in life, must they not make these graces and harmonies their perpetual aim? Plato. The Republic.
- And which are the harmonies expressive of sorrow? Plato. The Republic.
- The harmonies which you mean are the mixed or tenor Lydian, and the full-toned or bass Lydian, and such like. Plato. The Republic.
- To say what these rhythms are will be your duty--you must teach me them, as you have already taught me the harmonies. Plato. The Republic.
- And which are the soft or drinking harmonies? Plato. The Republic.
- And these, he replied, are the Dorian and Phrygian harmonies of which I was just now speaking. Plato. The Republic.
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