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Discordance vs Discordancy - What's the difference?

discordance | discordancy |

As nouns the difference between discordance and discordancy

is that discordance is a state of discord while discordancy is discordance.

discordance

English

Alternative forms

* discordaunce

Noun

(en noun)
  • A state of discord.
  • * I. Taylor
    • There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion.
  • (music) Lack of harmony; dissonance.
  • (genetics) The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical twins).

    • discordancy

    English

    Noun

    (discordancies)
  • discordance
  • *{{quote-journal, 2000, date=May 5, M. W. Martin et al., Age of Neoproterozoic Bilatarian Body and Trace Fossils, White Sea, Russia: Implications for Metazoan Evolution, Science citation
    • , passage=A linear regression through these 18 data sets yields an upper intercept age of 555.4 ± 1.6 Ma [mean squared weighted deviation (MSWD) = 0.10] and a lower intercept indistinguishable from 0 Ma, suggesting that normal discordancy is a function of recent Pb loss. }}