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Conflict vs Disharmony - What's the difference?

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Conflict is a related term of disharmony.


As nouns the difference between conflict and disharmony

is that conflict is a clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals while disharmony is the absence of harmony or concordance.

As a verb conflict

is to be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.

conflict

Noun

(en noun)
  • A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
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  • An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
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  • To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
  • Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.

    References

    * English heteronyms ----

    disharmony

    English

    Noun

    (disharmonies)
  • The absence of harmony or concordance.
  • * 2013 , Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/02/argentina-britain-hand-back-falklands]
  • Critics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.

    Synonyms

    * inharmony (not as common)

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs