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Discrepant vs Discrepancy - What's the difference?

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Discrepancy is a related term of discrepant.



As nouns the difference between discrepant and discrepancy

is that discrepant is a dissident while discrepancy is an inconsistency between facts or sentiments.

As an adjective discrepant

is showing difference; inconsistent, dissimilar.

discrepant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing difference; inconsistent, dissimilar.
  • * Cudworth
    • The Egyptians were the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship.
  • * 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 29:
    • But the term ‘godlike’ [...] becomes exceedingly vague, for many gods have flourished in religious history, and their attributes have been discrepant enough.

    Synonyms

    * inconsistent * incompatible * (soplink)

    Related terms

    * discrepancy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A dissident.

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    discrepancy

    English

    Noun

    (discrepancies)
  • An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}
  • The state or quality of being discrepant.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "discrepancy")

    Synonyms

    * (inconsistency) conflict, contrariety, deviation, difference, disagreement, disparity, divergence, incompatibility, inconsistency, mismatch, variance, variation, dissimilarity, anomaly * (discrepant state) discordance, anomalous