English▸ noun
(plural cacophonies)
a harsh discordant mixture of sounds: a cacophony of deafening alarm bells
figurative a cacophony of architectural styles
songs of unrelieved cacophony.
– ORIGIN mid 17th century : from French cacophonie, from Greek kakophōnia, from kakophōnos ‘ill-sounding’, from kakos ‘bad’ + phōnē ‘sound’.