Contrariety vs Discordance - What's the difference?
contrariety | discordance |
Opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast.
*, II.12:
*:What differences of sense and reason, what contrarietie of imaginations doth the diversitie of our passions present unto us?
* 1759 , (Laurence Sterne), The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , Penguin 2003, p.61:
*:This contrariety of humours betwixt my father and my uncle, was the source of many a fraternal squabble.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island) :
*:The wind blowing steady and gentle from the south, thee was no contrariety between that and the current, and the billows rose and fell unbroken.
*2011 , Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement , 21 Sep.:
*:At the heart of his argument is the contrariety between day and night, light and dark.
A state of discord.
* I. Taylor
(music) Lack of harmony; dissonance.
(genetics) The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical twins).
As nouns the difference between contrariety and discordance
is that contrariety is opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast while discordance is a state of discord.contrariety
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Alternative forms
* discordaunceNoun
(en noun)- There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion.