counternoise
English
Etymology
counter- + noise
Noun
counternoise (plural counternoises)
- A noise in response or opposition to another noise.
- 1950, Reprints of the Publication of the Department of Medicine of the University of Chicago (page 72)
- […] the production of counternoises (hissing, booing), over which the listeners at least had control, to drown out the uncontrollable and unintelligible music.
- 1950, Reprints of the Publication of the Department of Medicine of the University of Chicago (page 72)