Discordant vs Conflicting - What's the difference?
discordant | conflicting |
not in harmony or accord
harsh or dissonant sounding
(public health) serodiscordant
(geology) of a differing type of rock cutting across a formation
Striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.
Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.
* 1999 , Herre van Oostendorp, Susan R. Goldman, The construction of mental representations during reading
*:On the other hand, the more effective the current activation vector is in reactivating the conflicting information, the more likely the two conflicting pieces of information are to be coactivated.
* 1841 , Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop Chapter 73
*:Of Sally Brass, conflicting rumours went abroad. Some said with confidence that she had gone down to the docks in male attire, and had become a female sailor; others darkly whispered that she had enlisted as a private in the second regiment of Foot Guards, and had been seen in uniform, and on duty, to wit, leaning on her musket and looking out of a sentry-box in St james's Park, one evening.
As adjectives the difference between discordant and conflicting
is that discordant is not in harmony or accord while conflicting is striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.As a verb conflicting is
.discordant
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Alternative forms
* discordaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Dikes may be discordant to country rock if they intrude at a high angle to the bedding
Antonyms
* concordantconflicting
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(Webster 1828)Adjective
(en adjective)- In the absence of all conflicting evidence.