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Discord vs Antipathy - What's the difference?

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Discord is a related term of antipathy.


As nouns the difference between discord and antipathy

is that discord is lack of concord, agreement or harmony while antipathy is contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.

As a verb discord

is (archaic) to disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.

discord

English

Noun

  • Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
  • * Bible, Proverbs vi. 19
  • A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
  • * Burke
  • Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.
  • Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
  • (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
  • Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds meeting.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • The one discording with the other.

    antipathy

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (antipathies)
  • Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
  • * Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. --Washington.
  • Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.
  • * A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason. --I. Taylor.
  • Usage notes

    * Prepositions: "antipathy" is followed by "to", "against", or "between"; also sometimes by "for".

    Synonyms

    * hatred, aversion, dislike, disgust, distaste, enmity, ill will, repugnance, contrariety, opposition

    Antonyms

    * sympathy