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cacophony |kəˈkäfənē|
noun ( pl. -nies)
a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds : a cacophony of deafening alarm bells | figurative a cacophony of architectural styles | songs of unrelieved cacophony.
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cacophonous |-nəs| adjective
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from French cacophonie, from Greek kakophōnia, from kakophōnos ‘ill-sounding,’ from kakos ‘bad’ + phōnē ‘sound.’
-Apple Dictionary 1.0.2 2005
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