Discord vs Rift - What's the difference?
discord | rift |
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
A chasm or fissure.
A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 130:
A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
To form a .
To cleave; to rive; to split.
* Wordsworth
As nouns the difference between discord and rift
is that discord is lack of concord, agreement or harmony while rift is a chasm or fissure.As verbs the difference between discord and rift
is that discord is (archaic) to disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash while rift is to form a or rift can be to belch or rift can be .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.
rift
English
(wikipedia rift)Etymology 1
Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish/Norwegian '' 'breach', Old Norse ''rífa 'to tear'. More at rive.Noun
(en noun)- My marriage is in trouble, the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
- The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
- I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
Verb
(en verb)- to rift an oak
- To dwell these rifted rocks between.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) rypta.Etymology 3
Verb
(head)- (Spenser)