Associations to the word «Atonality»

Wiktionary

ATONALITY, noun. (uncountable) (music) A style of music that is written without a key.
ATONALITY, noun. (countable) (music) A passage written without a key.

Dictionary definition

ATONALITY, noun. The absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne