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Discord vs Aversion - What's the difference?

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Discord is a related term of aversion.


As nouns the difference between discord and aversion

is that discord is lack of concord, agreement or harmony while aversion is aversion.

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.

    Related terms

    * discordant * Discordianism

    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.

    aversion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike.
    • Due to her aversion to the outdoors she complained throughout the entire camping trip.
  • An object of dislike or repugnance.
    • Pushy salespeople are a major aversion of mine.
  • (obsolete) The act of turning away from an object.

    • Synonyms

    * (fixed dislike) antipathy, disinclination, reluctance * (object of repugnance) abomination

    Related terms

    * averse

    See also

    * adverse

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