Divorce vs Discordance - What's the difference?
divorce | discordance |
The legal dissolution of a marriage.
A separation of connected things.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) That which separates.
To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
To end one's own marriage in this way.
To separate something that was connected.
To obtain a legal divorce.
A state of discord.
* I. Taylor
(music) Lack of harmony; dissonance.
(genetics) The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical twins).
As nouns the difference between divorce and discordance
is that divorce is the legal dissolution of a marriage while discordance is a state of discord.As a verb divorce
is to legally dissolve a marriage between two people.divorce
English
(wikipedia divorce)Noun
(en noun)- Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.
- The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.
- to make divorce of their incorporate league
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (legal dissolution of a marriage) divorcement * (separation of connected things) partition, separation, severanceAntonyms
* marriageDerived terms
* velvet divorceVerb
(divorc)- A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.
- Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
- The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.
- Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.
Synonyms
* (to legally dissolve a marriage) split up * (to separate something that was connected) disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, separateAntonyms
* marryDerived terms
* innocently divorceddiscordance
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Alternative forms
* discordaunceNoun
(en noun)- There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion.