overtone has definitions from the field of psychology
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[ noun ] (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality

Examples

"overtones of despair"

Used in print

(John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)

Here artistic realism involves the audience in an impassioned participation in events whose overtones and implications are transcendent .

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meaning plural

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[ noun ] (psychology) a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency

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harmonic

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