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Discord vs Disaccord - What's the difference?

discord | disaccord |

As nouns the difference between discord and disaccord

is that discord is lack of concord, agreement or harmony while disaccord is the absence or reverse of accord.

As verbs the difference between discord and disaccord

is that discord is to disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash while disaccord is to fail to be in accord.

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.

    disaccord

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The absence or reverse of accord.
  • Disharmony.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fail to be in accord.
    • He stated the case but I did disaccord .

    References

    * OED2