Ragan and PR Daily’s word of the year: dissonance 

And other selections from across dictionaries and media.  
Each year, the editors of Ragan Communications and PR Daily select a word characterizing the climate public relations professionals have navigated throughout the past year. 
We have selected “dissonance” as our 2024 word of the year. 
Dissonance, of course, is often used in a musical sense, describing discordant notes played simultaneously. It’s derived from the Latin dis-, here meaning “apart,