Discord vs Antipathy - What's the difference?
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Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
* Bible, Proverbs vi. 19
* Burke
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
(archaic) To disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
* Francis Bacon
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.
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
- A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
- Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.
- For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds meeting.
Verb
(en verb)- The one discording with the other.