A fork of Rural Dictionary
When the mood of a room or situation is drastically changed in a short amount of time.
We were having a great party until Jesse pulled out a gun, it was a total tonal whiplash
Something having to do with a relative strength of color in comparison to we don't know what. Only used by big corporate douchebags attempting to sound intelligent instead of researching what the hell they are talking about. The symptoms of having this word used in your direction includes hair loss, vulgar outbursts and possible harsh sarcasm.
Example: The ad's background needs to have half the tonal value of the logo. Also make every other word blink and make the logo bigger. Have this done by tonight. Thanks, Scum of the earth.
The scientific study of the tones individuals use to express a word.
Carlos was listening to Grand Funk Railroad play "The Loco-Motion" and was amazed by the singer's adroit use of tonality to each time he expressed a word or a few of them in succession convey a message or messages which were quite a little different, complimented, or reinforced the words he sang. He realized tonality was but has not been raised to the level of a science, and coined the term Tonality Science to go in that direction.