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| Main Entry: | rhythm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beat, accent of sound, music |
| Synonyms: | bounce, cadence, downbeat, flow, lilt, measure, meter, movement, pattern, pulse, regularity, rhyme, swing, tempo, time, uniformity, cadency, metre, periodicity, rise and fall |
| Main Entry: | classicism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | simple style; regularity, restraint |
| Synonyms: | balance, clarity, class, dignity, elegance, excellence, finish, formality, grandeur, lucidity, majesty, nobility, objectivity, polish, proportion, propriety, purity, refinement, rhythm, severity, simplicity, sobriety, symmetry, Atticism, Ciceronianism, Hellenism, aesthetic principle, classicalism, conventional formality, formal style, grand style, high art, neoclassicism, pure taste, rationalism, sublimity |
| Main Entry: | cycle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | era, phase |
| Synonyms: | age, alternation, chain, circle, circuit, course, eon, loop, orbit, period, revolution, rhythm, ring, rotation, round, run, sequel, sequence, series, succession, wheel, aeon, isochronism, periodicity |
| Notes: | a single to-and-fro movement of an air particle is called a cycle and the number of cycles that occur in a second is known as the frequency of a sound |
| Main Entry: | elegance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivated beauty, taste |
| Synonyms: | breeding, charm, class, cultivation, culture, delicacy, dignity, discernment, distinction, felicity, gentility, grace, grandeur, hauteur, luxury, magnificence, nicety, nobility, polish, politeness, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, rhythm, sophistication, splendor, style, symmetry, courtliness, exquisiteness, good taste, gracefulness, lushness, noblesse, ornateness, poshness, sumptuousness, tastefulness |
| Antonyms: | roughness, ugliness, crudeness, inelegance, poor taste |
| Main Entry: | frequency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commonness, repetitiveness |
| Synonyms: | abundance, beat, constancy, density, iteration, number, oscillation, persistence, prevalence, regularity, reiteration, repetition, rhythm, frequentness, periodicity, pulsation, recurrence |
| Antonyms: | infrequency, irregularity, uncommonness |
| Main Entry: | repetition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | duplication; doing again |
| Synonyms: | chant, chorus, copy, echo, encore, iteration, litany, paraphrase, practice, recapitulation, recital, redundancy, rehearsal, reiteration, relation, renewal, repeat, report, reproduction, return, rhythm, rote, alliteration, broken record, ingemination, iteracy, iterance, periodicity, perseveration, reappearance, recurrence, reoccurrence, repetitiousness, replication, restatement, staccato, tautology |
| Antonyms: | instance |
| Main Entry: | rhyme |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poetry in which lines end with like sounds |
| Synonyms: | beat, cadence, couplet, harmony, iambic pentameter, measure, meter, ode, poem, poetry, rhythm, song, tune, verse, alliteration, doggerel, half-rhyme, nursery rhyme, poesy, rune, slant rhyme, vowel-chime |
| Main Entry: | swing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moving back and forth |
| Synonyms: | beat, cadence, fluctuation, lilt, measure, meter, motion, oscillation, rhythm, stroke, sway, tempo, undulation, vibration, cadency, swaying |
| Main Entry: | symmetry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | proportion |
| Synonyms: | agreement, arrangement, balance, conformity, correspondence, equality, equilibrium, equivalence, evenness, finish, form, harmony, order, regularity, rhythm, similarity, centrality, equipoise, proportionality, shapeliness |
| Antonyms: | difference, disproportion, imbalance, irregularity, asymmetry, unevenness |
| Main Entry: | regularity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evenness |
| Synonyms: | balance, clockwork, conformity, congruity, consistency, constancy, harmony, precision, proportion, punctuality, rhythm, rotation, routine, symmetry, uniformity, invariability, orderliness, periodicity, predictability, recurrence, steadiness |
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | throbbing |
| Synonyms: | cadence, flow, flutter, measure, meter, oscillation, palpitation, pound, pressure, pulse, quake, quiver, rhyme, rhythm, ripple, shake, surge, swell, swing, throb, thump, tick, undulation, vibration, cadency, pulsation |
| Main Entry: | composition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | structure, arrangement |
| Synonyms: | agreement, architecture, balance, beauty, combination, concord, configuration, consonance, constitution, content, design, distribution, form, formation, harmony, layout, proportion, relation, rhythm, style, symmetry, weave, make-up, placing, spacing |
| Main Entry: | accent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stress or pitch in pronunciation |
| Synonyms: | articulation, beat, cadence, emphasis, force, inflection, intonation, meter, modulation, pronunciation, rhythm, stroke, timbre, tone, accentuation, enunciation, tonality |
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