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