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Discord vs Disharmony - What's the difference?

discord | disharmony |

As nouns the difference between discord and disharmony

is that discord is lack of concord, agreement or harmony while disharmony is the absence of harmony or concordance.

As a verb discord

is 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.

    disharmony

    English

    Noun

    (disharmonies)
  • The absence of harmony or concordance.
  • * 2013 , Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/02/argentina-britain-hand-back-falklands]
    • Critics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.

    Synonyms

    * inharmony (not as common)

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs