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Concordance vs Discordance - What's the difference?

concordance | discordance |

As nouns the difference between concordance and discordance

is that concordance is agreement; accordance; consonance while discordance is a state of discord.

concordance

English

(wikipedia concordance)

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • agreement; accordance; consonance
  • * (rfdate)
    • Contrasts, and yet concordances .
  • (grammar, obsolete) concord; agreement.
  • An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
  • * c. 1857 , (Thomas Macaulay), "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica ,
    • His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
  • (computational linguistics) a list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.

    • discordance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * discordaunce

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A state of discord.
  • * I. Taylor
    • There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion.
  • (music) Lack of harmony; dissonance.
  • (genetics) The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical twins).